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oapen-20.500.12657-307732023-01-31T18:45:38Z Thinking About Dementia Leibing, Annette Cohen, Lawrence Anthropology dementia age anthropology health medicine Alzheimer's disease 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. 2018-01-24 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-02-25 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:12:44Z 2020-04-01T13:12:44Z 2006-01-01 book 642729 OCN: 71842945 9780813538020 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30773 eng Studies in Medical Anthropology application/pdf n/a 642729.pdf Rutgers University Press 10.2307/j.ctt5hjbhp 101109 10.2307/j.ctt5hjbhp 111d1c48-fc70-44ba-97fa-39be459ee343 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780813538020 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) New Brunswick 101109 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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