This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This is the
first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences
expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the
last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and
first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range
of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these
narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what
narrative plot do they adapt; and how do they draw on established
strategies of life-writing. It also analyses how these accounts
engage with the culturally dominant Alzheimer's narrative that
centres on dependence and vulnerability, and addresses how they
relate to discourses of gender and aging. Linking literary
scholarship to the medico-scientific understanding of dementia as a
neurodegenerative condition, this book argues that, first,
patients' articulations must be made central to dementia discourse;
and second, committed alleviation of caregiver burden through
social support systems and altered healthcare policies requires
significantly altered views about aging, dementia, and Alzheimer's
patients.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer International Publishing AG
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Series: |
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
| Release date: |
May 2018 |
| First published: |
2017 |
| Authors: |
Martina Zimmermann
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
167 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-319-83046-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: history & criticism >
Literary studies >
From 1900
|
| LSN: |
3-319-83046-5 |
| Barcode: |
9783319830469 |
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