The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 'Despite the recent spate of books about Alzheimer’s disease by doctors, patients, and caregivers, no other writer to my knowledge has attempted to do what the humanities scholar and research scientist Martina Zimmermann has accomplished here:...

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Autor principal: Zimmermann, Martina (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2017.
Colección:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine.
Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35694440*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Critically Reading Dementia Narratives: Amplifying Advocacy
  • Chapter 1: Of Wives and Daughters: The Stereotype of Caring Females?
  • Chapter 2: From a zCare-Freey Distance: Sons Talking About Cultural Concepts
  • Chapter 3: About Tradition and Triumph: Patients Popularise Dementia Narrative
  • Chapter 4: On Reclaiming Authority: The Enabling Discourse of Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Conclusion: Dementia Narratives – Shifter of Perspectives and Values
  • Bibliography
  • Works Cited
  • Index.