1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390414003316

Autore

J. S

Titolo

Paidōn nosēmata· = or Childrens diseases [[electronic resource] ] : both outward and inward. From the time of their birth to fourteen years of age. With their natures, causes, signs, presages and cures. In three books: 1. Of external 2. Universal 3. Inward diseases. Also, the resolutions of many profitable questions concerning children, and of nurses, and of nursing children. By J. S. physician

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed by W.G. and are to be sold by J. Playford and Zach. Watkins at their shop in the Temple near the Church, 1664

Descrizione fisica

[14], 176 p., [1] leaf of plates

Soggetti

Children - Diseases - England

Disease - Causes and theories of causation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The first two words of title are in Greek characters.

The words "1. .. diseases." are connected by a complex system of brackets on title page.

Engraved frontispiece is signed: Giu. Vaughan fecit.

With four preliminary contents leaves.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786539503321

Autore

Brijnath Bianca

Titolo

Unforgotten : love and the culture of dementia care in India / / by Bianca Brijnath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78238-355-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ; ; Volume 2

Disciplina

616.8/300954

Soggetti

Senile dementia - Patients - Care - India

Senile dementia - Patients - Family relationships - India

Caregivers - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Transliteration; Introduction; 1. Methods and Character Buildingunforgotten; 2. The Diagnostic Process; 3. Therapeutics and Health Seeking; 4. The Economies of Care; 5.  Alzheimer's and the Indian Appetite; 6. Stigma and Loneliness in Care; 7. The Journey to Silence; Conclusion  'This is the Time for Romance'; Glossary; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. In addressing this question, this book offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia. From the husband who wakes up at 3 am to feed his wife ice-cream to the daughters who gave up employment for seven years to care for their mother with dementia, this book illuminates the local idioms on dementi