Julian C Hughes

How We Think about Dementia

Personhood, Rights, Ethics, the Arts and What They Mean for Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a much-needed accessible overview of the complex philosophical and ethical underpinnings of dementia care, this book explores current thinking around the concepts of ageing, personhood, capacity, liberty, best interests and the nature of palliative care, shedding new light on their implications for the caring professions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 375g
• ISBN-13: 9781849054775
• ISBN-10: 1849054770
• Artikelnr.: 40526540

Autorenporträt

Professor Julian C. Hughes is Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Professor of Philosophy of Ageing at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre, Newcastle University. He is co-author of Ethical Issues in Dementia Care: Making Difficult Decisions, also published by JKP. He lives in Newcastle, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction. Part I: Ageing. 1. Our Changing Expectations of
Life: What Do We Really Want? 2. Research, Ageing and Dementia. Part II:
Personhood. 3. Memory: Inner or Outer? 4. I am still the same person. 5.
The Body in Dementia. Part III: Capacity and Incapacity. 6. 'Capacity':
What is it and so what? 7. Capacity Legislation in Practice: Balancing
Personal and Polis. 8. Incapacity and Mental Disorder. Part IV: Palliative
and Supportive Care. 9. Beyond Hypercognitivism. 10. Understanding the
Language of Distress. 11. Ethics, Patterns, Causes and Pathways: In Pursuit
of Good Palliative Care. 12. Intentions and Best Interests: Dying and
Killing. Part V: Arts. 13. The Art and Practice of Memory and Forgetting
co-authored with Ashley McCormick, artist, curator and educator. 14. In
Praise of 'Negative Capability': Keats and Killick. Conclusion: Care -
Solicitude and Solidarity. References and Further Reading. Index.