The diseased brain and the failing mind : : dementia in science, medicine and literature of the long twentieth century / / Martina Zimmermann.

• Superior document: Explorations in science and literature
• VerfasserIn: Zimmermann, Martina (Researcher in health humanities),
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 pages)

"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...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Dedication Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Series Preface
• 1 Introduction
• Alzheimer's disease: A twenty-first-century first-world scare
• Dementia in history
• Methodology: Literature and science
• Overview
• Part I The organic paradigm
• 2 From brain inspection to cell death
• The Forsyte Saga: The cultural image of dementia in the fin-de-siècle family novel
• Dementia and memory loss in science, medicine and literature before 1880
• Auguste D. and Johann F.: Alzheimer's clinical cases and histological research
• The case
• The discourse of degeneration
• The definition of the disease
• The reaction to the definition of the disease
• Degeneration: The old and new narrative of loss and decline in medico-scientific literature on dementia and Alzheimer's disease
• There Were No Windows: The patient's illness experience in the modernist novel
• Part II The ageing perspective
• 3 Culture shapes politics shapes science
• Researching old age: From medical science to old-age psychiatry
• At The Jerusalem: Dementia defines the elderly in 1960s new realist fiction
• 4 The loss of self in healthcare and cultural discourse
• Caregiver guides: Helpers in the face of loss and decline
• Out of Mind: The postmodern novel delves into the mind of the patient
• Part III The cognitive picture
• 5 The narrative of loss in a growing biomedical and literary marketplace of Alzheimer's disease
• Neurodegeneration: The biochemical narrative of lost molecules, pathways and communication
• On genes and genealogy: The patient as specimen, carrier and type in research and popular science
• Death in Slow Motion: Past identities, lost plots and old age in caregiver life-writing
• 6 Neurotechnologies and narrative examine the failing mind
• The visual exploration of the brain and fascination with the mind
• The Dying of the Light: Detective fiction claims back patient authority
• Who Will I Be When I Die? Patient life-writing around the year 2000
• Part IV The whole-person prospects
• 7 The dichotomy of Alzheimer's disease
• Immunization hope and hype: The patient as non-responder
• La guardiana di Ulisse: The patient beyond forgetting in children's literature and adult fiction of the new century
• Alzheimer mon amour: Healthcare changes and patient personality in contemporary caregiver memoirs
• We Are Not Ourselves: The cultural image of Alzheimer's disease in the twenty-first-century bildungsroman
• 8 Conclusion
• Glossary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index Page
• Copyright Page