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Thinking About Dementia - Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility (Paperback)
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Thinking About Dementia - Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility (Paperback)
Series: Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice
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"A seminal contribution to the field of medical anthropology on an
extremely important topic. A useful and interesting volume for
undergraduates, graduate students, and medical researchers
interested in dementia."-Tanya Luhrmann, Max Palevsky Professor,
Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago Bringing
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.
Annette Leibing is a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a researcher at the
Institute of Social Gerontology of Quebec and MEOS/Universite de
Montreal. Lawrence Cohen is an associate professor of anthropology
and South and Southeast Asian studies, and director of the Medical
Anthropology Program at the University of California, Berkeley. A
volume in the Studies in Medical Anthropology Series, edited by Mac
Marshall, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Community &
Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
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