Living with Alzheimer's : : Managing Memory Loss, Identity, and Illness /

Living with Alzheimer's : : Managing Memory Loss, Identity, and Illness / / Renée L. Beard.

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News of Alzheimer’s disease is constantly in the headlines. Every day we hear heart-wrenching stories of people caring for a loved one who has become a shell of their former self, of projections about rising incidence rates, and of cures that are just around the corner. However, we don't see or...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Beard, Renée L.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Prologue: Lost in Translation
  • 1. The Meaning of Memory Loss: Illness, Identity, and Biography
  • 2. History and Technoscience: From Senility to Alzheimer’s
  • 3. Constructing Facts in Clinical Practice: Interpreting, Diagnosing, and Treating Memory Loss
  • 4. Being Cognitively Evaluated: Learning to Medicalize Forgetfulness
  • 5. Hearing “the A Word”: The Road to Becoming an Alzheimer’s Patient
  • 6. Everyday Life with Diagnosis: The New Normal
  • 7. Advocating Alzheimer’s: Biomedical Structures and Social Movements
  • 8. Forget Me Not: The Future of Alzheimer’s
  • APPENDIX A. Interview Guides
  • APPENDIX B. Study Design and Methodology
  • APPENDIX C. Study Sites and Procedures
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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