The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing / / by Martina Zimmermann.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 'Despite the recent spate of books about Alzheimer’s disease by doctors, patients, and caregivers, no other writer to my knowledge has attempted to do what the humanities scholar and research scientist Martina Zimmermann has accomplished here:...
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