“Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.” WorldReasonWantedSpiritualPoliticalMoralConditionsPositionMaterialsIllnessObviousMedicalMental IllnessComponentsDomainImplicationsTheologicalDementiaAlzheimer Author:Margaret M. Lock
