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The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
Martina Zimmermann
其他書名
Dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the Long Twentieth Century
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing
, 2020-06-25
主題
Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Science / History
ISBN
1350121827
9781350121829
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DwrnDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by
The Wellcome Trust
.
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.
The book includes a glossary of scientific terms for non-specialist readers.