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Thinking through dementia /

With a rapidly expanding elderly population, there has been a marked increase in the incidence of dementia, and this dreadful, debilitating illness now affects - directly or indirectly - millions of people across the world. Dementia throws up a number of particular clinical, ethical, and conceptual...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hughes, Julian C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Colección:International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Clinical surround: values and versions
  • SEA view of persons
  • Mental states and normativity
  • Mind and the world
  • Normativity in the world
  • Models of dementia
  • Problem: models of dementia and normativity
  • Moving towards a solution: dementia and the normative world
  • Consequence: beyond models to the thing itself
  • Personhood and the world
  • From dementia-in-the-world to the human-person-perspective
  • Dilemmas in dementia: a framework and philosophical approach
  • Conversion and revolution.