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Thinking about dementia : culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility /

Cultural responses to most illnesses differ; dementia is no exception. These responses, together with a society's attitudes toward its elderly population, affect the frequency of dementia-related diagnoses and the nature of treatment. Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, thi...

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Други автори: Leibing, Annette., Cohen, Lawrence, 1961-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ℗♭2006.
Серия: Studies in medical anthropology.
Предмети:
Medical anthropology.
Dementia.
Alzheimer's disease.
Public health > Anthropological aspects.
Anthropology.
Dementia > psychology.
Aged.
Alzheimer Disease > psychology.
Clinical Medicine > methods.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
MEDICAL > General.
Electronic books.
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=165287
Подобни документи: Print version:: Thinking about dementia.
Съдържание:
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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 ro„jin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan.

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