Thinking about Dementia
Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility
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ISBN-13:
9780813538037
Veröffentl:
2006
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.02.2006
Seiten:
299
Autor:
Annette Leibing
Gewicht:
425 g
Format:
230x154x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Explores the historical, psychological, and philosophical implications of dementia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book employs a cross-cultural perspective and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect.
Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Part One 1 Dementia-Near-Death and "Life Itself" 23 2 The Borderlands of Primary Care 43 3 Negotiating the Moral Status of Trouble 64 4 Diagnosing Dementia 80 5 The Biomedical Deconstruction of Senility and the Persistent Stigmatization of Old Age in the United States 106 Part Two 6 Generic Susceptibility and Alzheimer's Disease 123 Part Three 7 Coherence without Facticity in Dementia 157 8 Creative Storytelling and Self-Expression among People with Dementia 180 9 Embodies Selfhood 195 10 Normality and Difference 218 11Divided Gazes 240 12 Being a Good Rojin 269 Contributions 289 Index 291
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