The Kingdom of Evils; Psychiatric social work presented in on... by E.E. Southard

Instead they pointed to two prime suspects for Alzheimer's amyloid-beta deposition: ' especially chronic infections like tuberculosis and leprosy. By 2013 Mawanda and Wallace's ' Can Infections Cause Alzheimer's Disease ' struck down some of the commonly entertained pathogens for AD such as herpes simplex virus type 1, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and several types of spirochetes. Study after study, in which scientists have injected human Alzheimer-diseased brain tissue into mice and other laboratory animals that later developed the disease have left little doubt that Alzheimer's disease (AD) arises from an infectious process. Recent literature shows a controversial new push to tie microorganisms to Alzheimer's disease (AD). By examining Southard’s medical and philosophical writings, I present a more nuanced analysis of the role of brain pathology in Southard’s vision of disease etiology, his views on the foundations of psychiatry, as well as a more vivid picture of the sorts of material practices that defined the work of the neuropathologist. Trained in a German tradition of laboratory pathology, Southard has been cast as a somaticist with respect to psychopathology. Unlike the neurologist,who was interested in treating patients and saving lives, the neuropathologist often encountered patients following death, and studied the brain for signs of pathology during autopsy. As a discipline sitting at the intersection between laboratory and clinical practice, neuropathology has received little attention from historians of the brain sciences. This paper explores the material and visual practices that defined studies of psychopathology in early twentieth-century American medicine, through a close look at the work of neuropathologist Elmer E.

The Kingdom of Evils; Psychiatric social work presented in on... by E.E. Southard