This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is
funded by The Wellcome Trust. The Diseased Brain and the Failing
Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and
alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the
20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and
Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding
the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is
rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and
literary texts. Following changing scientific understandings of
dementia, the book also demonstrates how cultural expressions of
the experience and dementia have fed back into the way medical
institutions have treated dementia patients. The book includes a
glossary of scientific terms for non-specialist readers.
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