Alzheimer - The Life of a Physician and the Career of a Disease

Preface ix The Auguste D. File 1(22) Alois Alzheimer's Ancestry, Childhood, and Youth 23(10) Student of Medicine 33(12) Berlin: The Mecca of Medicine 33(3) Corps Student in Wurzburg 36(3) A Semester in Tubingen 39(2) In Wurzburg Again: The Doctoral Thesis 41(4) From Wurzburg to Frankfurt 45(55) The Young Psychiatrist 53(10) Recognition in the Scientific World 63(8) First Publications 71(12) Years of Happiness 83(12) 1901: A Fateful Year 95(5) To Munich via Heidelberg 100(89) New Tasks 104(9) Venia Legendi 113(10) Family Life 123(6) In the Anatomy Laboratory 129(5) Responsibility as Chief Physician 134(3) The Fruits of Labor 137(14) Auguste D.'s Death 151(7) Disappointment in Tubingen 158(11) On the Tracks of the Mysterious Illness 169(12) Farewell to Munich 181(8) Breslau 189(28) Psychiatry in a Time of War 201(7) Alzheimer's Death 208(9) Alzheimer's: The Career of a Disease 217(22) Family Tree 239(2) Chronology 241(2) Notes 243(10) Glossary 253(4) Internet Resources 257(2) Index 259