Thinking About Dementia Culture Loss and the Anthropology of Senility 1st Edition by Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen 0813538025 9780813538020
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ISBN 10: 0813538025
ISBN 13: 9780813538020
Author: Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen
Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect. Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions to our understanding of the mental status of the elderly. First, cross-cultural data show that the aging process, while biologically influenced, is also culturally constructed. Second, ethnographic reports raise questions about the diagnostic criteria used for defining the elderly as demented. Third, case studies show how a diagnosis affects a patient’s treatment in both clinical and familial settings. Finally, the collection highlights the gap that separates current biological understandings of aging from its cultural meanings. As Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia continue to command an ever-increasing amount of attention in medicine and psychology, this book will be essential reading for anthropologists, social scientists, and health care professionals.
Table of contents:
Part One: Changes in Clinical Practice
Chapter 1: Dementia-Near-Death and “Life Itself”
Chapter 2: The Borderlands of Primary Care: Physician and Family Perspectives on “Troublesome” Behav
Chapter 3: Negotiating the Moral Status of Trouble: The Experiences of Forgetful Individuals Diagnos
Chapter 4: Diagnosing Dementia: Epidemiological and Clinical Data as Cultural Text
Chapter 5: The Biomedical Deconstruction of Senility and the Persistent Stigmatization of Old Age in
Part Two: The Role of Genomics in Alzheimer’s Research
Chapter 6: Genetic Susceptibility and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Penetrance and Uptake of Genetic Know
Part Three: The Organization of Voice, Self, or Personhood
Chapter 7: Coherence without Facticity in Dementia: The Case of Mrs. Fine
Chapter 8: Creative Storytelling and Self-Expression among People with Dementia
Chapter 9: Embodied Selfhood: An Ethnographic Exploration of Alzheimer’s Disease
Chapter 10: Normality and Difference: Institutional Classification and the Constitution of Subjectiv
Chapter 11: Divided Gazes: Alzheimer’s Disease, the Person within, and Death in Life
Chapter 12: Being a Good Rojin
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