Title Self, senility, and Alzheimer's disease in modern America : a history / Jesse F. Ballenger.

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Description	1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-229) and index.
Contents	Stereotype of senility in late-nineteenth-century America -- Beyond the characteristic plaques and tangles -- From senility to successful aging -- Renaissance of pathology -- Health politics of anguish -- Preservation of selfhood in the culture of dementia.
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Subject	Alzheimer's disease -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Alzheimer's disease.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Alzheimer Disease -- history.
	Attitude to Health.
	History, 19th Century.
	History, 20th Century.
	Self Concept.
	United States.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Ballenger, Jesse F. Self, senility, and Alzheimer's disease in modern America. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 9780801882760 (DLC) 2005012140 (OCoLC)60311901
ISBN	9780801888885 (electronic book)
	0801888883 (electronic book)
	9780801882760 (print)
	0801882761 (print)
	0801882761 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)