Annette Leibing

Thinking About Dementia

Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 299
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9780813538037
• ISBN-10: 0813538033
• Artikelnr.: 21459174

Autorenporträt

Leibing, Annette

Inhaltsangabe

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