Dementia
Subtitle: mind, meaning, and the person
By: edited by Julian Hughes, Stephen Louw, Steven R. Sabat.
Contributors: Hughes, Julian.; Louw, Stephen.; Sabat, Steven R.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780198566151; 9780198566144
Subjects: Dementia -- Philosophy; Identity (Psychology); Self (Philosophy); Dementia -- psychology -- Aged; Personhood -- Aged; Professional-Patient Relations -- ethics; Self Concept -- Aged
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Seeing whole / Julian C. Hughes, Stephen J. Louw, and Steven R. Sabat; title: Ageing and human nature / Michael Bavidge; title: Dementia and personal identity / A. Harry Lesser; title: Identity: self and dementia / John McMillan; title: Into the darkness: losing identity with dementia / Jennifer Radden and Joan M. Fordyce; title: Can the self disintegrate?: personal identity, psychopathology, and disunities of consciousness / E. Jonathan Lowe; title: Keeping track, autobiography, and the conditions for self-erosion / Michael Luntley; title: The discursive turn, social constructionism, and dementia / Tim Thornton; title: The return of the living dead: agency lost and found? / Carmelo Aquilina and Julian C. Hughes; title: Dementia and the identity of the person / Eric Matthews; title: Meaning-making in dementia: a hermeneutic perspective / Guy A. M. Widdershoven and Ron L. P. Berghmans; title: I am, thou art: personal identity in dementia / Catherine Oppenheimer; title: Spiritual perspectives on the person with dementia: identity and personhood / F. Brian Allen and Peter G. Coleman; title: Respectare: moral respect for the lives of the deeply forgetful / Stephen G. Post; title: Understandings of dementia: explanatory models and their implications for the person with dementia and therapeutic effort / Murna Downs, Linda Clare, and Jenny Mackenzie; title: Personhood and interpersonal communication in dementia / Lisa Snyder; title: From childhood to childhood? autonomy and dependence through the ages of life / Harry Cayton; title: Mind, meaning, and personhood in dementia: the effects of positioning / Steven R. Sabat.