Thinking About Dementia : Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility / / edited by Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen
| Thinking About Dementia : Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility / / edited by Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen |
| Autore | Leibing Annette |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J. : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.4/61 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CohenLawrence <1961->
LeibingAnnette |
| Collana | Studies in medical anthropology |
| Soggetto topico |
Public health - Anthropological aspects
Alzheimer's disease Dementia Medical anthropology |
| ISBN |
1-280-94700-4
9786610947003 0-8135-3927-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Dementia-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 rōjin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996449448003316 |
Leibing Annette
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| New Brunswick, N.J. : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Thinking about dementia : culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility / / edited by Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen
| Thinking about dementia : culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility / / edited by Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen |
| Autore | Leibing Annette |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.4/61 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
LeibingAnnette
CohenLawrence <1961-> |
| Collana | Studies in medical anthropology |
| Soggetto topico |
Medical anthropology
Dementia Alzheimer's disease Public health - Anthropological aspects |
| ISBN |
9786610947003
9781280947001 1280947004 9780813539270 0813539277 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Dementia-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 rojin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. Traphagan. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910213816003321 |
Leibing Annette
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| New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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