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

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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Leibing, Annette, Cohen, Lawrence, 1961-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
Collection:Studies in medical anthropology.
Sujets:
Medical anthropology.
Dementia.
Alzheimer's disease.
Public health > Anthropological aspects.
Anthropology.
Older people.
Anthropology
Dementia > psychology
Aged
Alzheimer Disease > psychology
Clinical Medicine > methods
Dementia
Alzheimer Disease
Aged, 80 and over
Démence.
Maladie d'Alzheimer.
Santé publique > Aspect anthropologique.
Anthropologie.
Personnes âgées.
anthropology.
elderly.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
MEDICAL > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Older people
Alzheimer's disease
Medical anthropology
Public health > Anthropological aspects
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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 / André 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 rōjin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan.

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