Thinking about dementia : : culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility / / edited by Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen.
Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions...
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| Superior document: | Studies in medical anthropology |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in medical anthropology.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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 / Andre 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 rojin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan.