Thinking about dementia culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility

Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Leibing, Annette (-), Cohen, Lawrence, 1961-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press c2006.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Studies in medical anthropology.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425658206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dementia-near-death and "life itself" / Sharon R. Kaufman
  • The borderlands of primary care : physician and family perspectives on "troublesome" behaviors of people with dementia / Ladson Hinton ... [et al.]
  • Negotiating the moral status of trouble : the experiences of forgetful individuals diagnosed with no dementia / Andre P. Smith
  • Diagnosing dementia : epidemiological and clinical data as cultural text / Janice E. Graham
  • The biomedical deconstruction of senility and the persistent stigmatization of old age in the United States / Jesse F. Ballenger
  • Genetic susceptibility and Alzheimer's disease : the penetrance and uptake of genetic knowledge / Margaret Lock, Stephanie Lloyd, and Janalyn Prest
  • Coherence without facticity in dementia : the case of Mrs. Fine / Athena Helen McLean
  • Creative storytelling and self-expression among people with dementia / Anne Davis Basting
  • Embodied selfhood : an ethnographic exploration of Alzheimer's disease / Pia C. Kontos
  • Normality and difference : institutional classification and the constitution of subjectivity in a Dutch nursing home / Roma Chatterji
  • Divided gazes : Alzheimer's disease, the person within, and death in life / Annette Leibing
  • Being a good rojin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan.