Thinking about Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility

by Lawrence Cohen, Annette Leibing, Yans Virginia Bell, et al.

Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect.

Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813538033
• ISBN13: 9780813538037
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher