Dementia mind, meaning, and the person / edited by Julian C. Hughes, Stephen J. Louw, Steven R. Sabat.

Other author Hughes, Julian C.
Other author Louw, Stephen J.
Other author Sabat, Steven R.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionxvi, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesInternational perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry
Contents Seeing whole / Julian C. Hughes, Stephen J. Louw, and Steven R. Sabat -- Ageing and human nature / Michael Bavidge -- Dementia and personal identity / A. Harry Lesser -- Identity, self, and dementia / John McMillan -- Into the darkness: losing identity with dementia / Jennifer Radden and Joan M. Fordyce -- Can the self disintegrate? personal identity, psychopathology, and disunities of consciousness / E. Jonathan Lowe -- Keeping track, autobiography, and the conditions for self-erosion / Michael Luntley -- The discursive turn, social constructionism, and dementia / Tim Thornton -- The return of the living dead: agency lost and found? / Carmelo Aquilina and Julian C. Hughes -- Dementia and the identity of the person / Eric Matthews -- Meaning-making in dementia: a hermeneutic perspective / Guy A. M. Widdershoven and Ron L. P. Berghmans --
Contents I am, thou art: personal identity in dementia / Catherine Oppenheimer -- Spiritual perspectives on the person with dementia: identity and personhood / F. Brian Allen and Peter G. Coleman -- Respectare: moral respect for the lives of the deeply forgetful / Stephen G. Post -- Understandings of dementia: explanatory models and their implications for the person with dementia and therapeutic effort / Murna Downs, Linda Clare, and Jenny Mackenzie -- Personhood and interpersonal communication in dementia / Lisa Snyder -- From childhood to childhood? autonomy and dependence through the ages of life / Harry Cayton -- Mind, meaning, and personhood in dementia: the effects of positioning / Steven R. Sabat.
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LCCN 2005019360
ISBN0198566158 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN019856614X (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780198566151 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780198566144 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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