1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000363920203316

Autore

LE BEUX, Pierre

Titolo

Introduction à Ada / Pierre Le Beux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Sybex, c1982

Descrizione fisica

XIII, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

001.6424

Collocazione

001.642 4 LEB

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798291803321

Autore

Beard Renee L.

Titolo

Living with Alzheimer's : Managing Memory Loss, Identity, and Illness / / Renee L. Beard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : New York University Press, , 2017

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©2017

ISBN

1-4798-5537-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

616.831

Soggetti

Maladie d'Alzheimer - Patients - Soins

Maladie d'Alzheimer

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Publie precedemment en version imprimee : 2016.

Titre de l'ecran-titre (visionne le 2 fevrier 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Prologue: Lost in Translation -- 1. The Meaning of Memory Loss: Illness, Identity, and



Biography -- 2. History and Technoscience: From Senility to Alzheimer’s -- 3. Constructing Facts in Clinical Practice: Interpreting, Diagnosing, and Treating Memory Loss -- 4. Being Cognitively Evaluated: Learning to Medicalize Forgetfulness -- 5. Hearing “the A Word”: The Road to Becoming an Alzheimer’s Patient -- 6. Everyday Life with Diagnosis: The New Normal -- 7. Advocating Alzheimer’s: Biomedical Structures and Social Movements -- 8. Forget Me Not: The Future of Alzheimer’s -- APPENDIX A. Interview Guides -- APPENDIX B. Study Design and Methodology -- APPENDIX C. Study Sites and Procedures -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

News of Alzheimer's disease is constantly in the headlines. Every day we hear heart-wrenching stories of people caring for a loved one who has become a shell of their former self, of projections about rising incidence rates, and of cures that are just around the corner. However, we don't see or hear from the people who actually have the disease. Renee L. Beard argues that the exclusively negative portrayals of Alzheimer's are grossly inaccurate. To understand what life with memory loss is really like, Beard draws on intensive observations of nearly 100 seniors undergoing cognitive evaluation.