Managing Memory: Biomedicalization and the process of becoming an Alzheimer's patient.

The article presents information on the medicalization of memory loss and how individuals are diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Medical sociology has a history of inspecting the impact and socially constructed nature of various medical conditions, technologies and science more broadly. The development and enhancement of diagnostic tools is one of the primary topics of interest in AD-research. The research has concentrated on developing dependable techniques to recognize pathological precursors of AD.