Thinking through dementia
With a rapidly expanding elderly population, there has been a marked increase in the incidence of dementia, and this dreadful, debilitating illness now affects - directly or indirectly - millions of people across the world. Dementia throws up a number of particular clinical, ethical, and conceptual problems, which mostly reflect complicated evaluative decisions, for instance about diagnosis and the distinction between normal and abnormal ageing. Different disciplines approach dementia in differ…
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- Full title :Thinking through dementia / Julian C. Hughes.
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With a rapidly expanding elderly population, there has been a marked increase in the incidence of dementia, and this dreadful, debilitating illness now affects - directly or indirectly - millions of people across the world. Dementia throws up a number of particular clinical, ethical, and conceptual problems, which mostly reflect complicated evaluative decisions, for instance about diagnosis and the distinction between normal and abnormal ageing. Different disciplines approach dementia in different ways - thus there are disease, cognitive neuropsychology, and social constructivist models of dem.
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- Publication Date:2011.
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
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- Description:1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191019845, 0191019844, 1306260272, 9781306260275
- oclc:ocn867050276
- LC Classification:RC521
- Dewey Decimal:616.83
Table of Contents
Clinical surround: values and versions -- SEA view of persons -- Mental states and normativity -- Mind and the world -- Normativity in the world -- Models of dementia -- Problem: models of dementia and normativity -- Moving towards a solution: dementia and the normative world -- Consequence: beyond models to the thing itself -- Personhood and the world -- From dementia-in-the-world to the human-person-perspective -- Dilemmas in dementia: a framework and philosophical approach -- Conversion and revolution.
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