The diseased brain and the failing mind : dementia in science, medicine and literature of the long twentieth century /

"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 - regard...

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Main Author:	Zimmermann, Martina (Researcher in health humanities) (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Series:	Explorations in science and literature
Subjects:	Dementia in literature. Literature and science > History > 20th century. Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism. Démence dans la littérature. Littérature et sciences > Histoire > 20e siècle. Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Literary studies: from c 1900. Dementia in literature Literature and science Literature, Modern 1900-1999 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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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"--
Physical Description:	1 online resource
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	1350121827 9781350121812 1350121819 9781350121829
DOI:	10.5040/9781350121836