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The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing

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Palgrave Macmillan


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Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Paru le : 2017-06-07

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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.
Pages
167 pages
Collection
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Parution
2017-06-07
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783319443874
EAN PDF
9783319443881
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1
Nombre pages imprimables
16
Taille du fichier
5560 Ko
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EAN EPUB
9783319443881
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
16
Taille du fichier
686 Ko
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