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Thinking about dementia : culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility / edited by Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in medical anthropologyPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, c2006.Description: vii, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780813538020 (hbk.) :
  • 0813538025 (hbk.) :
  • 9780813538037 (pbk.) :
  • 0813538033 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 22 L5255 2006
LOC classification:
  • GN296 .T45 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Dementia-near-death and "life itself" / Sharon R. Kaufman -- The borderlands of primary care : physician and family perspectives on "troublesome" behaviors of people with dementia / Ladson Hinton ... [et al.] -- Negotiating the moral status of trouble : the experiences of forgetful individuals diagnosed with no dementia / André P. Smith -- Diagnosing dementia : epidemiological and clinical data as cultural text / Janice E. Graham -- The biomedical deconstruction of senility and the persistent stigmatization of old age in the United States / Jesse F. Ballenger -- Genetic susceptibility and Alzheimer's disease : the penetrance and uptake of genetic knowledge / Margaret Lock, Stephanie Lloyd, and Janalyn Prest -- Coherence without facticity in dementia : the case of Mrs. Fine / Athena Helen McLean -- Creative storytelling and self-expression among people with dementia / Anne Davis Basting -- Embodied selfhood : an ethnographic exploration of Alzheimer's disease / Pia C. Kontos -- Normality and difference : institutional classification and the constitution of subjectivity in a Dutch nursing home / Roma Chatterji -- Divided gazes : Alzheimer's disease, the person within, and death in life / Annette Leibing -- Being a good ro ̄jin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan.
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This volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dementia-near-death and "life itself" / Sharon R. Kaufman -- The borderlands of primary care : physician and family perspectives on "troublesome" behaviors of people with dementia / Ladson Hinton ... [et al.] -- Negotiating the moral status of trouble : the experiences of forgetful individuals diagnosed with no dementia / André P. Smith -- Diagnosing dementia : epidemiological and clinical data as cultural text / Janice E. Graham -- The biomedical deconstruction of senility and the persistent stigmatization of old age in the United States / Jesse F. Ballenger -- Genetic susceptibility and Alzheimer's disease : the penetrance and uptake of genetic knowledge / Margaret Lock, Stephanie Lloyd, and Janalyn Prest -- Coherence without facticity in dementia : the case of Mrs. Fine / Athena Helen McLean -- Creative storytelling and self-expression among people with dementia / Anne Davis Basting -- Embodied selfhood : an ethnographic exploration of Alzheimer's disease / Pia C. Kontos -- Normality and difference : institutional classification and the constitution of subjectivity in a Dutch nursing home / Roma Chatterji -- Divided gazes : Alzheimer's disease, the person within, and death in life / Annette Leibing -- Being a good ro ̄jin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan.

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