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Author: Margaret Lock
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Lock's diligent survey of research, literature, conferences, and interviews from 2008 to 2012 follows events that led to a recasting of the phenomenon of Alzheimer disease as something to be prevented—and the lack of consensus on how to do so. She also calls for better care and social support for those living with the disease. Lock (An Anthropology of Biomedicine), McGill University professor of social studies of medicine, states that the stubborn conundrum of the most commonly diagnosed subcategory of dementia is that its biology, causes, and risk factors aren't very well understood. Lock proves that the science of the disease is just as compelling as poignant accounts from caregivers and those suffering with Alzheimer's disease. Lock highlights just how much we don't know, from problems with Alzheimer's pathology, testing, and diagnosis to the search for a drug treatment. The number of times the word ˜uncertainty' has been used in this book is remarkable, she notes. While science plugs away at solving the Alzheimer's conundrum, Lock's call for improved care and social support takes on a new urgency. (Nov.)
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"[A] diligent survey of research, literature, conferences, and interviews. . . . Lock proves that the science of the disease is just as compelling as poignant accounts from caregivers and those suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Lock highlights just how much we don't know, from problems with Alzheimer's pathology, testing, and diagnosis to the search for a drug treatment. . . . While science plugs away at solving the Alzheimer's conundrum, Lock's call for improved care and social support takes on a new urgency."--
Publishers Weekly"[Lock] delivers key concepts in epidemiology, neuroscience and genetics in a way that is both scholarly and free of unnecessary technical details. Lock's bird's-eye view and mix of diverging sources of information is refreshing. . . . For its wide scope and balanced critical evaluation,
The Alzheimer Conundrum is an inspiring read for everyone working in the field."--
Eus Van Someren, Nature"Comprehensive, cogent, and densely detailed,
The Alzheimer Conundrum provides a useful antidote to media hype about 'silver bullets' that are 'just around the corner' and makes an important contribution to our understanding of an achingly tragic disease that touches virtually all of us."--
Glenn Altschuler, Psychology Today"
The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging is a welcome addition to a body of work that has so productively explored the historical contingencies, cultural specificities, and philosophical dilemmas that surround and shape bodies and people's understandings and inhabitances of them."--
Aaron Seaman, Somatosphere See all Editorial Reviews
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- Hardcover: 328 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (October 27, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 069114978X
- ISBN-13: 978-0691149783
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