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1 online resource. |
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Explorations in science and literature
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title Page -- Dedication Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Alzheimer's disease: A 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-siècle 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 |
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The case -- The discourse of degeneration -- The definition of the disease -- The reaction to the definition of the disease -- 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 |
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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 |
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Death in Slow Motion: Past identities, lost plots and old age in caregiver life-writing -- 6 Neurotechnologies 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 |
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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 -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Page -- Copyright Page |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 08, 2020). |
| Subject |
Dementia in literature.
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Literature and science -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Dementia in literature. (OCoLC)fst02008895
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Literature and science. (OCoLC)fst01000093
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Literature, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01000172
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zimmermann, Martina (Researcher in health humanities). The diseased brain and the failing mind London : New York Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 9781350121805 (DLC) 2020010911 |
| ISBN |
1350121827 electronic book |
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9781350121812 electronic book |
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1350121819 electronic book |
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9781350121829 electronic book |
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9781350121805 hardcover |
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