5. Hearing “the A Word”: The Road to Becoming an Alzheimer’s Patient

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Prologue: Lost in Translation 1
5. 1. The Meaning of Memory Loss: Illness, Identity, and Biography 5
6. 2. History and Technoscience: From Senility to Alzheimer’s 21
7. 3. Constructing Facts in Clinical Practice: Interpreting, Diagnosing, and Treating Memory Loss 50
8. 4. Being Cognitively Evaluated: Learning to Medicalize Forgetfulness 85
9. 5. Hearing “the A Word”: The Road to Becoming an Alzheimer’s Patient 106
10. 6. Everyday Life with Diagnosis: The New Normal 136
11. 7. Advocating Alzheimer’s: Biomedical Structures and Social Movements 168
12. 8. Forget Me Not: The Future of Alzheimer’s 215
13. APPENDIX A. Interview Guides 235
14. APPENDIX B. Study Design and Methodology 239
15. APPENDIX C. Study Sites and Procedures 247
16. NOTES 269
17. REFERENCES 287
18. INDEX 319
19. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 324