Zaboravljanje - Alzheimerova bolest: Portret jedne epidemije
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- Author: David Shenk
- Publisher: Algoritam
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- Condition: Excellent
- Code: 35405
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Zaboravljanje - Alzheimerova bolest: Portret jedne epidemije
David Shenk
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David Shenk: Forgetting - Alzheimer's Disease: Portrait of an Epidemic
Alzheimer's disease, an incurable progressive memory disorder and a real public health scourge of the near future, is the main character of this very readable and comprehensibly written book.
David Shenk narrates in parallel the history of research into the disease, from the beginning of the 20th century when it was named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer who first discovered organic changes (nodules and plaques) in the brain of a fifty-year-old patient, as well as about the symptoms and clinical course: memory loss, spatial disorientation and increasing confusion. After diagnosis, the average survival time is about eight years, and in less than fifty years it is assumed that in developed countries there will no longer be a person who will not be affected by this disease in some way. it brings to the stage doctors and scientists, brainwashed nurses, politicians faced with conflicting decisions, as well as the patients themselves with their touching stories: Wald Emerson, Mark Twain, Ronald Reagan and many more unknowns.
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- Author: David Shenk
- Publisher: Algoritam
- Year of publication:2005
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:248
- Dimensions:17.5x23 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Excellent
- Binding:Softcover
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