Karl Herrup

Broschiertes Buch

How Not to Study a Disease

The Story of Alzheimer's

Beschreibung

"A trade book on Alzheimer's disease--its human face, some insights into its biology, the discoveries that seemed a path to prevention if not cure, 25 years without progress, and a new path forward"--

Autor

Karl Herrup is Professor of Neurobiology and an Investigator in the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is also Adjunct Professor of Life Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he was formerly Head of Life Sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780262546010
• ISBN-10: 0262546019
• Artikelnr.: 64369669

Rezensionen

In How Not to Study a Disease, a lucid, knowledgeable, but not entirely objective critique of the field of Alzheimer s research, Karl Herrup, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, analyzes this challenge. He describes the complexity of even defining the disease; tells of the excitement of Alzheimer s research in the 1990s, when its cause was thought to be understood and treatments seemed imminent; and charts the long and expensive trickle of disappointment in the decades since, as it has become clear that the disease is much more complicated than was initially thought. As his title signals, Herrup criticizes the field for its adherence to a causal theory of Alzheimer s that he argues does not hold up.
New York Review of Books