Alzheimer: The Life Of A Physician And The Career Of A Disease; Author: Maurer, Konrad; Author: Translator Levi, Neil; Hardback; Book

Author: Maurer, Konrad; Author: Translator Levi, Neil
Hardback; Book; 49 Halftones
256 pages
Published: December 2002
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0231118961

Although Alzheimer's disease has been well documented throughout the twentieth century, no biography has been written of the man who was its namesake. This biography is the first, and it covers the life of Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), his discovery of the disease that currently afflicts some thirty to forty million people, and his subsequent research.The very name Alzheimer is sure to bring a shudder. Despite considerable research, the underlying causes of Alzheimer's disease remain shrouded in mystery. So, too, does the man after whom it was named. Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915).Whilst the cause of Alzheimer's remains a mystery so too does the life of the man after whom it was named. Born in 1964 Alois Alzheimer was practicing medicine in Frankfurt when he met a patient whose condition puzzled him. More than a biography, this is also the story of scientific discovery.