Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History

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Index acetylcholine, 92–94, 100 Adkins, Janet, 146, 147–151 ADRDA (Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association), 107, 117–118, 120–122, 127, 137. See also Alzheimer’s Association ageism, 75–79, 81, 104, 109, 110, 182 aging: adjustment to, 67, 68–69; fear of, 143; funding for research on, 57; impact of industrialization on, 9, 13; medical model of, 15– 16; successful, 56, 59, 60, 148 almshouses, 38–39 Alzheimer, Alois, 41–45, 90, 98, 101 Alzheimer’s Association, 114–116, 126, 129, 132 Alzheimer’s disease: acceptance of as a disease entity, 43–45, 200n34, 200n36; advocates, 113–114, 121, 142; classification, 45–47, 52– 53, 81, 86, 101, 103–105, 110, 114, 128, 142– 143; diagnosis, 104, 106–109, 174, 176–178; economic and social burden, 119; emergence in the 1970s, 56, 183, 187; epidemiology, 105, 130; etiology, 93, 105; fear of, 145; funding for research, 104, 109–110, 114–116, 119–120, 124–127, 131, 145, 154; funding for support of caregivers, 115–116, 118, 123–124, 145; gender, ethnicity, and class, 132–134; higher prevalence among women, 86, 207n25; memoirs of people diagnosed with, 173–180, 226– 227n53; public culture of, 187; public policy, 109–111, 116, 122–123, 161; representation of, ix, xiii, 4, 99, 128–130, 132, 142, 144, 172, 178, 179, 181, 187; research on, 81, 90–92, 100– 102, 105, 111; social construction, 184. See also senile dementia Alzheimer’s disease movement, 80, 113–115, 119, 128–130, 134, 152, 181, 217n5 American psychiatry: attitude toward elderly patients, 19– 20; burden of aged patients on, 39–40; classification of senile dementia, 41; diagnostic sloppiness, 84; interest in senile dementia, 36, 38; misdiagnosis of treatable dementias, 106; nineteenth century, 15; post– World War II literature on senility, 62; psychodynamic orientation, 49, 54, 82, 91; therapeutic initiative in dementia, 51 amyloid, 46, 88, 89 Angell, Marcia 149–150 apocalyptic demography, 119, 131, 142 Auguste D. (Alois Alzheimer’s patient), 199n24 Barondes, S. H., 102 Barrett, Alfred, 44 Barron, Milton, 76 Beard, George Miller, 20, 60, 65, 67 Berrios, German, 43 Beyond the Thin Line (Gard), 1, 10 Bick, Katherine, 105 bioethics, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 162 biomedical model of dementia, 88–92, 95, 111, 182, 183, 187, 216n80 Blessed, Gary, 54, 84, 85 Bliss, Michael, 13 Bogdan, Robert, and Steven Taylor, study of the social construction of the self, 160, 163, 164 Bowen, David, 95 brain biopsy, 94–95, 213n36 brain pathology, 47–48, 52, 54, 63, 82–84, 87, 89, 105, 107, 108–109 Braslow, Joel, 51 Bredin, Kathleen, 183 British psychiatry, 52, 82 Butler, Robert: coining of the term ageism, 75; comment on the Janet Adkins case, 147, 149; 232 index Butler (cont.) disease-specific lobbying strategy, 118; fight against ageism, 77, 79, 81; founding of the ADRDA, 116; health politics of anguish, 118; medical triumphalism, 122, 123–124, 125, 127; rejection of senility as a medical term, 106, 142 caregivers: burden on, 29, 131, 132; narratives of, 154–159; testimony in Congress, 129; and the social construction of self in dementia, 167– 168, 171–172, 186, 187 cerebral arteriosclerosis, 36, 50, 54, 85, 106 cholinergic hypothesis, 92–101 cholinesterase inhibitors. See under therapy Christianity, 4, 155, 161–162 Ciba Foundation symposium on Alzheimer’s disease (1969), 88, 89, 102 civil rights movement, 75, 77–78, 146, 159–160 clinical-pathological correlation 37, 41, 48, 81– 82, 84–86, 96–99 coercion in aging programs, 70–74 cognitive disability, 164, 184 Cohn, Robert, 52, 204n70 Cole, Thomas, 14, 79 Comfort, Alex, 78–79, 80 Cooley, Charles Horton, 163 Corsellis, J. A. N., 82–83, 106 Courtney, Douglas, 63 Cowdry, Edmund V., 56 Coyle, Joseph, 97, 98 D’Amato, Alphonse, 124–125 DASNI (Dementia Advocacy and Support Network ), 227n53 Davidson, Ann, 156–158, 161 Davies, Peter, 95 Davis, Kenneth L., 125–126 Davis, Robert, 174–175 death, 6, 146, 147 DeBaggio, Thomas, 177–179 deinstitutionalization, 40 dementia: brain pathology, 37; description of, 16; etiology of, 37; fear of, xii–iii, 1, 2, 8–9, 10; historical prevalence of, 8; meaning of, 4; medical literature on, 19; psychiatric understanding of, 20; psychosocial factors, 37. See also Alzheimer’s disease; senile dementia Deutsch, Albert, 40 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , 107 di√erential diagnosis, 50, 54 disease-of-the-month syndrome, 118 Divry, Paul, 46, 88 Donahue, Wilma, 65 Do You Remember Me? (Levine), 224n21 Drachman, David, 94, 101, 120 Easterly, Warren, 129 Eastern mysticism, 156–158...