The diseased brain and the failing mind : : dementia in science, medicine and literature of the long twentieth century / / Martina Zimmermann.
"The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regard...
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| Superior document: | Explorations in science and literature |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London England : New York : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2020. London : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Explorations in science and literature
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (285 pages) |
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| Summary: | "The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changing scientific understandings of dementia, the book also demonstrates how cultural expressions of the experience and dementia have fed back into the way medical institutions have treated dementia patients"-- |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1350121827 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Martina Zimmermann. |