Dementia : mind, meaning, and the person /

This study juxtaposes philosophical analysis and clinical experience to present an overview of the issues surrounding dementia. It conveys a strong ethical message, arguing in favour of treating people with dementia with all the dignity they deserve as human beings.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hughes, Julian C., Louw, Stephen J., Sabat, Steven R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
Subjects:
Dementia > Philosophy.
Identity (Psychology)
Self (Philosophy)
Older people.
Self-perception.
Dementia > psychology
Aged
Personhood
Professional-Patient Relations > ethics
Self Concept
Démence > Philosophie.
Identité (Psychologie)
Moi (Philosophie)
Personnes âgées.
Perception de soi.
elderly.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Alzheimer's & Dementia.
MEDICAL > Neurology.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Seeing whole / Julian C. Hughes, Stephen J. Louw, and Steven R. Sabat
  • Ageing and human nature / Michael Bavidge
  • Dementia and personal identity / A. Harry Lesser
  • Identity, self, and dementia / John McMillan
  • Into the darkness : losing identity with dementia / Jennifer Radden and Joan M. Fordyce
  • Can the self disintegrate? : personal identity, psychopathology, and disunities of consciousness / E. Jonathan Lowe
  • Keeping track, autobiography, and the conditions for self-erosion / Michael Luntley
  • The discursive turn, social constructionism, and dementia / Tim Thornton
  • The return of the living dead : agency lost and found? / Carmelo Aquilina and Julian C. Hughes
  • Dementia and the identity of the person / Eric Matthews
  • Meaning-making in dementia : a hermeneutic perspective / Guy A.M. Widdershoven and Ron L.P. Berghmans
  • I am, thou art : personal identity in dementia / Catherine Oppenheimer
  • Spiritual perspectives on the person with dementia : identity and personhood / F. Brian Allen and Peter G. Coleman
  • Respectare : moral respect for the lives of the deeply forgetful / Stephen G. Post
  • Understandings of dementia : explanatory models and their implications for the person with dementia and therapeutic effort / Murna Downs, Linda Clare, and Jenny Mackenzie
  • Personhood and interpersonal communication in dementia / Lisa Snyder
  • From childhood to childhood? : autonomy and dependence through the ages of life / Harry Cayton
  • Mind, meaning, and personhood in dementia : the effects of positioning / Steven R. Sabat.

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