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Martina Zimmermann, Lara Choksey - Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind

Dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the Long Twentieth Century

Av Martina Zimmermann, Lara Choksey

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on Bloomsbury Collections. 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.
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Martina Zimmermann teaches at the University of Warwick, UK, and is Privatdozentin at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She trained as a pharmaceutical scientist and specialized in neuropharmacology before moving into research in the health humanities. She is the author of The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing (2017). She has recently been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship with which she returns to the Department of English at King’s College London, where this monograph had been researched.

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Zimmermann’s analysis of literature, medicine, and science addressing dementia and caregivingin diverse cultures is a reminder of the importance of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural knowledgefor social workers.

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