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oapen-20.500.12657-588352022-10-15T03:24:20Z The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind Zimmermann, Martina Disability dementia alzheimer’s disease identity ageing literature and science medical humanities bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 - bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSA Literary theory bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science 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. 2022-10-14T14:54:42Z 2022-10-14T14:54:42Z 2020 book ONIX_20221014_9781350121829_166 9781350121829 9781350121812 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58835 eng Explorations in Science and Literature application/pdf n/a 9781350121812.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350121836 10.5040/9781350121836 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350121829 9781350121812 Bloomsbury Academic 240 London open access
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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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