Jesse F. Ballenger is author of Self, Senility and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History" (Johns Hopkins Press, 2006), and co-editor of two interdisciplinary volumes on Alzheimer’s disease: Concepts of Alzheimer Disease: Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives (Johns Hopkins, 2000), and Treating Dementia: Do We Have a Pill for It? (Johns Hopkins, 2000). He teaches in the Bioethics program at Penn State University.