Thinking About Dementia

Annette Leibing is a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a researcher at the Institute of Social Gerontology of Quebec and MOS/Universit de Montral. Lawrence Cohen is an associate professor of anthropology and South and Southeast Asian studies, and director of the Medical Anthropology Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

• ContentsAcknowledgements viiIntroduction 1Part One1 Dementia-Near-Death and "Life Itself" 232 The Borderlands of Primary Care 433 Negotiating the Moral Status of Trouble 644 Diagnosing Dementia 805 The Biomedical  Deconstruction of Senility and the Persistent Stigmatization of Old Age in the United States 106Part Two6 Generic Susceptibility and Alzheimer's Disease 123Part Three7 Coherence without Facticity in Dementia 1578 Creative Storytelling and Self-Expression among People with Dementia 1809 Embodies Selfhood 19510 Normality and Difference 21811Divided Gazes 24012 Being a Good Rojin 269Contributions 289Index 291

"A seminal contribution to the field of medical anthropology on an extremely important topic. A useful and interesting volume for undergraduates, graduate students, and medical researchers in dementia." - Tanya Luhrmann, Max Palevsky Professor, Committee on Human Development (University of Chicago)