Thinking about dementia
Subtitle: culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility
By: edited by Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen.
Contributors: Leibing, Annette.; Cohen, Lawrence, 1961-
Series: Rutgers series in medical anthropology
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780813538020; 9780813538037
Subjects: Medical anthropology.; Dementia.; Alzheimer's disease.; Public health -- Anthropological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dementia-near-death and "life itself" / Sharon R. Kaufman; title: The borderlands of primary care : physician and family perspectives on "troublesome" behaviors of people with dementia / Ladson Hinton ... [et al.]; title: Negotiating the moral status of trouble : the experiences of forgetful individuals diagnosed with no dementia / Andre P. Smith; title: Diagnosing dementia : epidemiological and clinical data as cultural text / Janice E. Graham; title: The biomedical deconstruction of senility and the persistent stigmatization of old age in the United States / Jesse F. Ballenger; title: Genetic susceptibility and Alzheimer's Disease : the "penetrance" and uptake of genetic knowledge / Margaret Lock, Stephanie Lloyd, and Janalyn Prest; title: Coherence without facticity in dementia : the case of Mrs. Fine / Athena Helen McLean; title: Creative storytelling and self-expression among people with dementia / Anne Davis Basting; title: Embodied selfhood : an ethnographic exploration of alzheimer's disease / Pia C. Kontos; title: Normality and difference : institutional classification and the constitution of subjectivity in a Dutch nursing home / Roma Chatterji; title: Divided gazes : Alzheimer's Disease, the person within, and death in life / Annette Leibing; title: Being a good rojin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan.