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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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