Thinking about dementia culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility /
Thinking about dementia culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility / [electronic resource] :
edited by Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
- vii, 299 p. : ill.
- Studies in medical anthropology .
- Studies in medical anthropology. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dementia-near-death and "life itself" / The borderlands of primary care : physician and family perspectives on "troublesome" behaviors of people with dementia / Negotiating the moral status of trouble : the experiences of forgetful individuals diagnosed with no dementia / Diagnosing dementia : epidemiological and clinical data as cultural text / The biomedical deconstruction of senility and the persistent stigmatization of old age in the United States / Genetic susceptibility and Alzheimer's disease : the penetrance and uptake of genetic knowledge / Coherence without facticity in dementia : the case of Mrs. Fine / Creative storytelling and self-expression among people with dementia / Embodied selfhood : an ethnographic exploration of Alzheimer's disease / Normality and difference : institutional classification and the constitution of subjectivity in a Dutch nursing home / Divided gazes : Alzheimer's disease, the person within, and death in life / Being a good rojin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / Sharon R. Kaufman -- Ladson Hinton ... [et al.] -- Andre P. Smith -- Janice E. Graham -- Jesse F. Ballenger -- Margaret Lock, Stephanie Lloyd, and Janalyn Prest -- Athena Helen McLean -- Anne Davis Basting -- Pia C. Kontos -- Roma Chatterji -- Annette Leibing -- John W. Traphagan.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Medical anthropology.
Dementia.
Alzheimer's disease.
Public health--Anthropological aspects.
Electronic books.
GN296 / .T45 2006
306.4/61
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dementia-near-death and "life itself" / The borderlands of primary care : physician and family perspectives on "troublesome" behaviors of people with dementia / Negotiating the moral status of trouble : the experiences of forgetful individuals diagnosed with no dementia / Diagnosing dementia : epidemiological and clinical data as cultural text / The biomedical deconstruction of senility and the persistent stigmatization of old age in the United States / Genetic susceptibility and Alzheimer's disease : the penetrance and uptake of genetic knowledge / Coherence without facticity in dementia : the case of Mrs. Fine / Creative storytelling and self-expression among people with dementia / Embodied selfhood : an ethnographic exploration of Alzheimer's disease / Normality and difference : institutional classification and the constitution of subjectivity in a Dutch nursing home / Divided gazes : Alzheimer's disease, the person within, and death in life / Being a good rojin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / Sharon R. Kaufman -- Ladson Hinton ... [et al.] -- Andre P. Smith -- Janice E. Graham -- Jesse F. Ballenger -- Margaret Lock, Stephanie Lloyd, and Janalyn Prest -- Athena Helen McLean -- Anne Davis Basting -- Pia C. Kontos -- Roma Chatterji -- Annette Leibing -- John W. Traphagan.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Medical anthropology.
Dementia.
Alzheimer's disease.
Public health--Anthropological aspects.
Electronic books.
GN296 / .T45 2006
306.4/61