Jesse F Ballenger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3088946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse F Ballenger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse F |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballenger |
| SIGNATURE | BALLENGER J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drexel University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
History and the Challenges of Dementia
Much has been written about the biological, clinical, and epidemiological aspects of dementia. Dire, sometimes apocalyptic social and policy issues have been identified and discussed, and scores of books have been published explaining all of this to a popular audience and providing practical advice for patients and their families. But the vast professional and popular discourse on dementia has largely been ahistorical and uncritical. This essay a…
Sarah F. Rose. No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s
As its subtitle indicates, No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s, makes the kind of social-constructionist argument about disability that became common in historical scholarship in the 1970s and 1980s. In many different fields, scholars deployed words like invention, creation, or discovery to signal that things (e.g., race, ethnic identity, class, sex and sexuality, and disease) commonly regarded as natural, inevitable, an…
Framing Confusion: Dementia, Society, and History
This essay will briefly sketch historical changes in the framing of dementia since the late nineteenth century. In broad terms, this period has seen a shift from viewing dementia as a pathological variant of normal aging to viewing it as a distinct disease. Although this broad reframing of dementia was clearly positive in raising awareness and funding for research, it had some negative aspects that should be considered. Caregiving came to seem le…
Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar by John Scanlan (review)
Reviewed by: Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar by John Scanlan Jesse F. Ballenger John Scanlan. Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 188pp. Ill. $29.00 (978-1-78023-178-5). In popular and medical discourses, human memory is usually taken to mean nothing more nor less than the crucial mental processes of encoding, storing and retrieving information. John Scanlan’s ambition in this b…
The Evolving Classification of Dementia: Placing the DSM-V in a Meaningful Historical and Cultural Context and Pondering the Future of “Alzheimer’s”
Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care: Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland (review)
Reviewed by: Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care: Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland Jesse Ballenger John A. Kastor . Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care: Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x + 275 pp. Ill. $50.00 (0-8018-8174-9). Reducing the cost of health care by limiting the use of expensive specialists was supposed to have been one of …
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression (review)
Reviewed by: Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression Jesse Ballenger David Healy . Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression. Medicine, Culture, and History. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xvi + 351 pp. $29.95 (0-8147-3669-6). In his earlier books, David Healy established himself as an authority on the history of psychop…
Alzheimer: The Life of a Physician and the Career of a Disease (review)
Reviewed by: Alzheimer: The Life of a Physician and the Career of a Disease Jesse Ballenger Konrad Maurer and Ulrike Maurer. Alzheimer: The Life of a Physician and the Career of a Disease. Translated by Neil Levi, with Alistair Burns. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. x + 270 pp. Ill. $49.50; £39.50 (0-231-11896-1). Little has been written about the history of Alzheimer's disease, and still less about the man for whom it is named—German …
Mind, Environment, and Culture
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Mind, Environment, and Culture
Alzheimer: The Life of a Physician and the Career of a Disease (review)
Reviewed by: Alzheimer: The Life of a Physician and the Career of a Disease Jesse Ballenger Konrad Maurer and Ulrike Maurer. Alzheimer: The Life of a Physician and the Career of a Disease. Translated by Neil Levi, with Alistair Burns. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. x + 270 pp. Ill. $49.50; £39.50 (0-231-11896-1). Little has been written about the history of Alzheimer's disease, and still less about the man for whom it is named—German …
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression (review)
Reviewed by: Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression Jesse Ballenger David Healy . Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression. Medicine, Culture, and History. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xvi + 351 pp. $29.95 (0-8147-3669-6). In his earlier books, David Healy established himself as an authority on the history of psychop…
Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care: Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland (review)
Reviewed by: Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care: Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland Jesse Ballenger John A. Kastor . Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care: Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x + 275 pp. Ill. $50.00 (0-8018-8174-9). Reducing the cost of health care by limiting the use of expensive specialists was supposed to have been one of …
The Evolving Classification of Dementia: Placing the DSM-V in a Meaningful Historical and Cultural Context and Pondering the Future of “Alzheimer’s”
Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar by John Scanlan (review)
Reviewed by: Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar by John Scanlan Jesse F. Ballenger John Scanlan. Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 188pp. Ill. $29.00 (978-1-78023-178-5). In popular and medical discourses, human memory is usually taken to mean nothing more nor less than the crucial mental processes of encoding, storing and retrieving information. John Scanlan’s ambition in this b…
Framing Confusion: Dementia, Society, and History
This essay will briefly sketch historical changes in the framing of dementia since the late nineteenth century. In broad terms, this period has seen a shift from viewing dementia as a pathological variant of normal aging to viewing it as a distinct disease. Although this broad reframing of dementia was clearly positive in raising awareness and funding for research, it had some negative aspects that should be considered. Caregiving came to seem le…
Sarah F. Rose. No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s
As its subtitle indicates, No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s, makes the kind of social-constructionist argument about disability that became common in historical scholarship in the 1970s and 1980s. In many different fields, scholars deployed words like invention, creation, or discovery to signal that things (e.g., race, ethnic identity, class, sex and sexuality, and disease) commonly regarded as natural, inevitable, an…
History and the Challenges of Dementia
Much has been written about the biological, clinical, and epidemiological aspects of dementia. Dire, sometimes apocalyptic social and policy issues have been identified and discussed, and scores of books have been published explaining all of this to a popular audience and providing practical advice for patients and their families. But the vast professional and popular discourse on dementia has largely been ahistorical and uncritical. This essay a…
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · History (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Dementia (3 works) · Disease (3 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pathology (3 works)