Julian Hughes / Stephen Louw / Steven R Sabat (eds.)

Dementia

Mind, Meaning, and the Person
Herausgeber: Hughes, Julian C; Sabat, Steven R; Louw, Stephen J

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Produktbeschreibung

Dementia: mind, meaning, and the person brings together philosophers and psychiatrists to explore the conceptual issues raised by this increasingly common illness. Drawing on a variety of philosophers, the authors explore the nature of personal identity in dementia. They show how the lives and selfhood of people with dementia can be enhanced by attention to their psychosocial and spritual environment. Accessibly written by leading figures in psychiatry and philosophy, the book presents a unique and long overdue examination of an illness that features in so many of our lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780198566144
• ISBN-10: 019856614X
• Artikelnr.: 21525530

Autorenporträt

Dr Julian C. Hughes is currently the Chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Dr Stephen J. Louw is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of South Africa, of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is currently Vice Chair of the UK Network for Clinical Ethics Committees. He was formerly Professor of Geriatric Medicine in the University of Cape Town. Professor Steven R. Sabat is Associate Editor of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington D.C. chapter of the Alzheimer's Disease Association and has been a co-leader of a support group for people with Alzheimer's Disease. He is currently Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Julian C Hughes, Stephen J Louw and Steven R Sabat: Seeing whole
* 2: Michael Bavidge: Ageing and human nature
* 3: Harry Lesser: Dementia and personal identity
* 4: John McMillan: Identity: self and dementia
* 5: Jennifer Radden and Joan M Fordyce: Into the darkness: losing
identity with dementia
* 6: E Jonathan Lowe: Can the self disintegrate? Personal identity,
psychopathology and disunities of consciousness
* 7: Michael Luntley: Keeping track, autobiography and the conditions
for self erosion
* 8: Tim Thornton: The discursive turn, social constructionism and
dementia
* 9: Carmelo Aquilina and Julian C Hughes: The return of the living
dead: agency lost and found?
* 10: Eric Matthews: Dementia and the identity of the person
* 11: Guy A M Widdershoven and Ron L P Berghmans: Meaning-making in
dementia: a hermeneutic perspective
* 12: Catherine Oppenheimer: I am, thou art: personal identity in
dementia
* 13: F Brian Allen and Peter G Coleman: Spiritual perspectives on the
person with dementia: identity and personhood
* 14: Stephen G Post: 'Respectare': moral respect for the lives of the
deeply forgetful
* 15: Murna Downs, Linda Clare and Jenny Mackenzie: Understandings of
dementia: explanatory models and their implications for the person
with dementia and therapeutic effort
* 16: Lisa Snyder: Personhood and interpersonal communication in
dementia
* 17: Harry Cayton: From childhood to childhood? Autonomy and
dependence through the ages of life
* 18: Steven R Sabat: Mind, meaning and personhood in dementia: the
effects of positioning