Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind

Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind

Dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the Long Twentieth Century

Zimmermann, Dr Martina

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

01/2022

284

Mole

Inglês

9781350249363

15 a 20 dias

404

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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-siecle 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
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Disability; dementia; alzheimer's disease; identity; ageing; literature and science; medical humanities