1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990006081360203316

Autore

PROUST, Marcel

Titolo

Alla ricerca del tempo perduto : la strada di Swann / Marcel Proust ; traduzione di Natalia Ginsburg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : [Enaudi], : 1952

Descrizione fisica

406 p. ; 22 cm

Disciplina

843.912

Collocazione

XV.9.M. 1337

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818249103321

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