The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 'Despite the recent spate of books about Alzheimer’s disease by doctors, patients, and caregivers, no other writer to my knowledge has attempted to do what the humanities scholar and research scientist Martina Zimmermann has accomplished here:...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Acceso en liña: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44388-1 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Critically Reading Dementia Narratives: Amplifying Advocacy
- Chapter 1: Of Wives and Daughters: The Stereotype of Caring Females?
- Chapter 2: From a “Care-Free” Distance: Sons Talking About Cultural Concepts
- Chapter 3: About Tradition and Triumph: Patients Popularise Dementia Narrative
- Chapter 4: On Reclaiming Authority: The Enabling Discourse of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Conclusion: Dementia Narratives – Shifter of Perspectives and Values
- Bibliography
- Works Cited
- Index.