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The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind Dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the Long Twentieth Century

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

23.07.2020

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Bloomsbury Academic

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284

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24/16,1/2 cm

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593 g

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Englisch

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978-1-350-12180-5

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Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

23.07.2020

Verlag

Bloomsbury Academic

Seitenzahl

284

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/2 cm

Gewicht

593 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-350-12180-5

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Libri GmbH
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  • Produktbild: The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
  • Produktbild: The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
  • Acknowledgements
    1: Introduction
    Alzheimer's disease: the twenty-first-century first-world scare
    Dementia in history
    Methodology: literature and science
    Overview
    Part I: The Organic Paradigm
    2: From brain inspection to cell death
    The Forsyte Saga: the cultural image of dementia in the fin-de-siècle family novel
    Dementia and memory loss in science, medicine and literature before 1880
    Auguste D. and Johann F.: Alzheimer's clinical cases and histological research
    Degeneration: the old and new narrative of loss and decline in medico-scientific literature on dementia and Alzheimer's disease
    There Were No Windows: the patient's illness experience in the modernist novel
    Part II: The Ageing Perspective
    3: Culture shapes politics shapes science
    Researching old age: from medical science to old-age psychiatry
    At The Jerusalem: dementia defines the elderly in 1960s' new realist fiction
    4: The loss of self in healthcare and cultural discourse
    Caregiver guides: helpers in the face of loss and decline
    Out of Mind: the postmodern novel delves into the mind of the patient
    Part III: The Cognitive Picture
    5: The narrative of loss in a growing biomedical and literary marketplace of Alzheimer's disease
    Neurodegeneration: the biochemical narrative of lost molecules, pathways and communication
    On genes and genealogy: the patient as specimen, carrier and type in research and popular science
    Death in Slow Motion: past identities, lost plots and old age in caregiver life-writing
    6: Neuro-technologies and narrative examine the failing mind
    The visual exploration of the brain and fascination with the mind
    The Dying of the Light: detective fiction claims back patient authority
    Who Will I Be When I Die?: patient life-writing around the year 2000
    Part IV: The Whole-Person Prospects
    7: The dichotomy of Alzheimer's disease
    Immunization hope and hype: the patient as non-responder
    La guardiana di Ulisse: the patient beyond forgetting in children's literature and adult fiction of the new century
    Alzheimer mon amour: healthcare changes and patient personality in contemporary caregiver memoirs
    We Are Not Ourselves: the cultural image of Alzheimer's disease in the twenty-first-century Bildungsroman
    8: Conclusion
    Notes
    Glossary
    Bibliography