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Preventing Dementia? - Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age (Paperback): Annette Leibing, Silke... Preventing Dementia? - Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age (Paperback)
Annette Leibing, Silke Schicktanz
R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.

Preventing Dementia? - Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age (Hardcover): Annette Leibing, Silke... Preventing Dementia? - Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age (Hardcover)
Annette Leibing, Silke Schicktanz
R3,019 Discovery Miles 30 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers' prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.

Doing Human Service Ethnography (Paperback): Andrew Jefferson, David Sausdal, David Wasterfors, Tarja Poesoe, Lucy Sheehan,... Doing Human Service Ethnography (Paperback)
Andrew Jefferson, David Sausdal, David Wasterfors, Tarja Poesoe, Lucy Sheehan, …
R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Human service work is performed in many places - hospitals, shelters, households, prisons, schools, clinics - and is characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles, relations and rules. Using ethnographic methods, researchers can investigate these site-specific complexities, providing multi-dimensional and compelling analyses. Bringing together both theoretical and practical material, this book shows researchers how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings. It provides an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offers a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach in the field of health and social care to generating valid knowledge about today's service work.

Thinking About Dementia - Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility (Paperback): Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen Thinking About Dementia - Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility (Paperback)
Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"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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