Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person

by Julian C. Hughes

Book Overview

Dementia is an illness that raises important questions about our own attitudes to illness and aging. It also raises very important issues beyond the bounds of dementia to do with how we think of ourselves as people - fundamental questions about personal identity. Is the person with dementia the same person he or she was before? Is the individual with dementia a person at all? In a striking way, dementia seems to threaten the very existence of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198566158
• ISBN13: 9780198566151
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"