Title On vanishing : mortality, dementia, and what it means to disappear / Lynn Casteel Harper.

Publication Info.	New York : Catapult, [2020]
	©2020

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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	MEMORY 616.831 HARPER	DUE 05-30-23 Billed
Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department	616.83 HARPER	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	616.831 HAR	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Display shelf	Simsbury Displays: Age Well Collection	DUE 05-04-24

Description	224 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	An estimated fifty million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer's erase parts of one's memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don't simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as vanishing in plain sight, fading away, or enduring a long goodbye. In On Vanishing, Lynn Casteel Harper, a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, investigates the myths and metaphors surrounding dementia and aging, addressing not only the indignities caused by the condition but also by the rhetoric surrounding it.
Contents	Introduction -- On vanishing -- Oh, Mexico -- Turning to fools and madmen -- The golden hour -- A great many seemings here -- She recognizes you -- When I have dementia -- Vanitas still life.
Subject	Dementia.
	Memory.
	Self.
	Dementia. (DNLM)D003704
	Memory. (DNLM)D008568
	Ego. (DNLM)D004532
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients).
	Memory. (OCoLC)fst01015913
	Dementia. (OCoLC)fst00890050
	Dementia.
	Memory.
	Self. (OCoLC)fst01111441
ISBN	9781948226288 (hardcover)
	1948226286 (hardcover)
	9781646220564 (paperback)
	1646220560 (paperback)

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