Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
Dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the Long Twentieth Century
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Publication
2020 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Language
English
Word Count
71,000 words, Guess
Page Count
284 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781350121805
- ISBN-101350121800
- Library of Congress Control Number2020010912
- OCLC Control Number1153339771
- Better World Books9781350121805
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL29454104M
Classifications
- LCCPN56.D4645Z56 2020
- LCCPN56.D4645 Z56 2020
Description
"The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changing scientific understandings of dementia, the book also demonstrates how cultural expressions of the experience and dementia have fed back into the way medical institutions have treated dementia patients"--
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