LEADER 04810oam 22007214a 450 001 996449448003316 005 20230525141251.0 010 $a1-280-94700-4 010 $a9786610947003 010 $a0-8135-3927-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813539270 035 $a(CKB)1000000000464989 035 $a(EBL)1021848 035 $a(OCoLC)71842945 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258625 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11235459 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258625 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10272768 035 $a(PQKB)10814878 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23295 035 $a(DE-B1597)530240 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813539270 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1021848 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10132091 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL94700 035 $a(ScCtBLL)9306d547-3857-4a19-8b7a-37f253bc0567 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1021848 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000464989 100 $a20050712d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aThinking About Dementia$eCulture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility /$fedited by Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen 210 1$aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$cRutgers University Press,$d2006. 210 4$dİ2006. 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in medical anthropology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-3802-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aDementia-near-death and "life itself" / Sharon R. Kaufman -- The borderlands of primary care : physician and family perspectives on "troublesome" behaviors of people with dementia / Ladson Hinton ... [et al.] -- Negotiating the moral status of trouble : the experiences of forgetful individuals diagnosed with no dementia / Andre P. Smith -- Diagnosing dementia : epidemiological and clinical data as cultural text / Janice E. Graham -- The biomedical deconstruction of senility and the persistent stigmatization of old age in the United States / Jesse F. Ballenger -- Genetic susceptibility and Alzheimer's disease : the penetrance and uptake of genetic knowledge / Margaret Lock, Stephanie Lloyd, and Janalyn Prest -- Coherence without facticity in dementia : the case of Mrs. Fine / Athena Helen McLean -- Creative storytelling and self-expression among people with dementia / Anne Davis Basting -- Embodied selfhood : an ethnographic exploration of Alzheimer's disease / Pia C. Kontos -- Normality and difference : institutional classification and the constitution of subjectivity in a Dutch nursing home / Roma Chatterji -- Divided gazes : Alzheimer's disease, the person within, and death in life / Annette Leibing -- Being a good ro?jin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan. 330 $aBringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect. Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions to our understanding of the mental status of the elderly. First, cross-cultural data show that the aging process, while biologically influenced, is also culturally constructed. Second, ethnographic reports raise questions about the diagnostic criteria used for defining the elderly as demented. Third, case studies show how a diagnosis affects a patient's treatment in both clinical and familial settings. Finally, the collection highlights the gap that separates current biological understandings of aging from its cultural meanings. As Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia continue to command an ever-increasing amount of attention in medicine and psychology, this book will be essential reading for anthropologists, social scientists, and health care professionals. 410 0$aStudies in medical anthropology. 606 $aPublic health$xAnthropological aspects 606 $aAlzheimer's disease 606 $aDementia 606 $aMedical anthropology 615 0$aPublic health$xAnthropological aspects. 615 0$aAlzheimer's disease. 615 0$aDementia. 615 0$aMedical anthropology. 676 $a306.4/61 700 $aLeibing$b Annette$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0916897 701 $aCohen$b Lawrence$f1961-$0916898 701 $aLeibing$b Annette$0916897 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996449448003316 996 $aThinking about dementia$92055532 997 $aUNISA