Explores the historical, psychological, and philosophical implications of dementia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book employs a cross-cultural perspective and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect.
Explores the historical, psychological, and philosophical implications of dementia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book employs a cross-cultural perspective and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect.
Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Part One 1 Dementia-Near-Death and "Life Itself" 23 2 The Borderlands of Primary Care 43 3 Negotiating the Moral Status of Trouble 64 4 Diagnosing Dementia 80 5 The Biomedical Deconstruction of Senility and the Persistent Stigmatization of Old Age in the United States 106 Part Two 6 Generic Susceptibility and Alzheimer's Disease 123 Part Three 7 Coherence without Facticity in Dementia 157 8 Creative Storytelling and Self-Expression among People with Dementia 180 9 Embodies Selfhood 195 10 Normality and Difference 218 11Divided Gazes 240 12 Being a Good Rojin 269 Contributions 289 Index 291
Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Part One 1 Dementia-Near-Death and "Life Itself" 23 2 The Borderlands of Primary Care 43 3 Negotiating the Moral Status of Trouble 64 4 Diagnosing Dementia 80 5 The Biomedical Deconstruction of Senility and the Persistent Stigmatization of Old Age in the United States 106 Part Two 6 Generic Susceptibility and Alzheimer's Disease 123 Part Three 7 Coherence without Facticity in Dementia 157 8 Creative Storytelling and Self-Expression among People with Dementia 180 9 Embodies Selfhood 195 10 Normality and Difference 218 11Divided Gazes 240 12 Being a Good Rojin 269 Contributions 289 Index 291
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