Rebecca Bitenc (Germany Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg)

Reconsidering Dementia Narratives

Empathy, Identity and Care

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Produktbeschreibung

Reconsidering Dementia Narratives explores the role of narrative in developing new ways of understanding, interacting with, and caring for people with dementia.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 242mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780367151348
• ISBN-10: 0367151340
• Artikelnr.: 57174638

Autorenporträt

Rebecca A. Bitenc completed her PhD on 'Dementia Narratives in Contemporary Literature, Life-Writing and Film' at Durham University, UK. Her research interests include critical medical humanities, narratology, and narrative ethics. She is a member of the Dementia and Cultural Narratives Network and the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research. She has an M.A. in English, French and Psychology from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Reconsidering Dementia Narratives
Two Starting Points
Why Narrative?
Biomedicine and the Cultural Meaning of Dementia
A Brief History of Dementia
Demography and Demonization
Reconsidering Dementia: Reparative Moves
The Alzheimer's 'Epidemic': Care, Cost and Social Justice
Literary Dementia Studies and the Medical Humanities
Illness Narratives: Countering Master Narratives and Exploring the Experience of Illness
Outline of Chapters
Part I Storytelling, Experience and Empathy
Chapter 1 Narrating Experiences of Dementia: Embodied Selves, Embodied Communication
Embodied Selves, Embodied Communication
Inside Views: Life Writing by People with Early-Onset Dementia
Memory
Language
Perception, Movement and the Senses
Emotions and Cognition
Time
The Social World: Intimate Relationships and Strangers
The Experience of Flow in Dementia
From the Caregiver's Perspective: Intersubjectivity in David Sieveking's Documentary Vergiss Mein Nicht
Viewing Symptoms of Dementia
The Communicating Body in Film
Embodied Selves and Relational Selves
Conclusion
Chapter 2 From the Outside in? Experience and Empathy in Fictional Dementia Narratives
Still Alice: From Fiction to Film
Experiencing Dementia/Experimenting with the Novel
Out of Mind
House Mother Normal
The Unconsoled
Concluding Reflections on Narrative Empathy
Part II Life Writing, Self-Writing and Creating Identities
Chapter 3 Life Writing at the Limits: Narrative Identity and Counter-Narratives in Dementia
Narrative Identity in Dementia: Friend or Foe?
Reconsidering Master and Counter-Narratives
The Problem of Counter-Narratives in Dementia: Reading First-Person Accounts by People with Dementia
Coherence in 'Broken' Counter-Narratives: 'Mrs Mill' and Other Stories
Janet's Story: Confabulation, Continuity, and Agency
Counter-Narratives in Context: The Editor's Role
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Relational Identity in (Filial) Caregivers' Memoirs
The Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics of Caregivers' Memoirs
Gender, Genre and the Self: Rethinking Relational Identity in Dementia
My Father's Brain
Do You Remember Me? A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self
Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
Conclusion
Part III Narrating Dementia/Rethinking Care
Chapter 5 Care-Writing Reconsidered: Towards a New Practice of Dementia Care
Exploring Caregivers' Dilemmas
Care or Coercion? Autonomy in Dementia
'Bad Grooming': Intimate Care in Dementia
'No Good Choices': Institutionalisation in Dementia
Imagining Alternative Approaches in Dementia Care
Reconsidering Confabulation
The Power of Music
From Control to Letting Go: Being With vs. Symptom Management
Challenging Care Practice
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Making Readers Care: Bioethics and the Novel
Ethics and the Novel: Countering, Stereotyping and Disturbing
Scar Tissue: Biomedicine and the Hermeneutics of Selfhood
Narrative and Neuroimaging: Raising Epistemological Questions
House Mother Normal: Disturbing Care
Exploring Bioethics: 'Living Through' as 'Thinking Through'
Still Alice: (Precedent) Autonomy and Suicide in Dementia
Mode, Medium and the Suicide Plot
Have the Men Had Enough? Gender and the Economies of Care
Conclusion
Dementia Narratives and Beyond
Index