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Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii List of Contributors xix PART I The Cases of Auguste D. and Johann F. Origins of the Modern Concept of Alzheimer Disease 1 1. Auguste D.: The History of Alois Alzheimer’s First Case 5 Konrad Maurer, Stephan Volk, and Hector Gerbaldo 2. Johann F.: The Historical Relevance of the Case for the Concept of Alzheimer Disease 30 Hans-Jurgen Möller and Manuel B. Graeber PART II From Alzheimer to the Present 47 3. Neurofibrillary Changes: The Hallmark of Alzheimer Disease 53 Heiko Braak and Eva Braak 4. Contributions of German Neuroscience to the Concept of Alzheimer Disease 72 Hans Förstl viii Contents 5. Beyond the Characteristic Plaques and Tangles: Mid-TwentiethCentury U.S. Psychiatry and the Fight Against Senility 83 Jesse F. Ballenger 6. The Rediscovery of Alzheimer Disease During the 1960s and 1970s 104 Robert Katzman and Katherine L. Bick 7. The History of the Genetics of Alzheimer Disease 115 Daniel A. Pollen PART III Alzheimer Disease as a Social and Cultural Entity 125 8. Alzheimer Disease: Epistemological Lessons from History? 129 Rob J. M. Dillmann 9. Aging, Culture, and the Framing of Alzheimer Disease 158 Martha Holstein 10. Narrative Practice and the Inner Worlds of the Alzheimer Disease Experience 181 Jaber F. Gubrium PART IV Politics, Policy, and the Perspectives of the Caregiver and Patient 205 11. The Role of the Concept of Alzheimer Disease in the Development of the Alzheimer’s Association in the United States 209 Patrick J. Fox 12. The History of the Alzheimer’s Association: Future Public Policy Implications 234 Katherine L. Bick 13. The Concept of Alzheimer Disease in a Hypercognitive Society 245 Stephen G. Post PART V Progress and Its Problems The Future of Alzheimer Disease 257 14. Alzheimer Disease and the New Biology 261 Larry Altstiel and Steven Paul [3.236.18.23] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 11:38 GMT) Contents ix 15. The Genetics of Alzheimer Disease: Some Future Implications 269 Robert Mullan Cook-Deegan 16. History and the Future of Alzheimer Disease 291 Peter J. Whitehouse Index 307 This page intentionally left blank ...