Thinking about dementia culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility
Cultural responses to most illnesses differ; dementia is no exception. These responses, together with a society's attitudes toward its elderly population, affect the frequency of dementia-related diagnoses and the nature of treatment. Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, thi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press
2006.
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Studies in medical anthropology. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37558146*spi |
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 [and others]
- Negotiating the moral status of trouble : the experiences of forgetful individuals diagnosed with no dementia / André 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 rōjin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan.
