The diseased brain and the failing mind : dementia in science, medicine and literature of the long twentieth century

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    • Zimmermann, Martina (Researcher in health humanities)

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The diseased brain and the failing mind : dementia in science, medicine and literature of the long twentieth century

Martina Zimmermann

（Explorations in science and literature）

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-256) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

Acknowledgements 1: Introduction Alzheimer's disease: the twenty-first-century first-world scare Dementia in history Methodology: literature and science Overview Part I: The Organic Paradigm 2: From brain inspection to cell death The Forsyte Saga: the cultural image of dementia in the fin-de-siecle family novel Dementia and memory loss in science, medicine and literature before 1880 Auguste D. and Johann F.: Alzheimer's clinical cases and histological research Degeneration: the old and new narrative of loss and decline in medico-scientific literature on dementia and Alzheimer's disease There Were No Windows: the patient's illness experience in the modernist novel Part II: The Ageing Perspective 3: Culture shapes politics shapes science Researching old age: from medical science to old-age psychiatry At The Jerusalem: dementia defines the elderly in 1960s' new realist fiction 4: The loss of self in healthcare and cultural discourse Caregiver guides: helpers in the face of loss and decline Out of Mind: the postmodern novel delves into the mind of the patient Part III: The Cognitive Picture 5: The narrative of loss in a growing biomedical and literary marketplace of Alzheimer's disease Neurodegeneration: the biochemical narrative of lost molecules, pathways and communication On genes and genealogy: the patient as specimen, carrier and type in research and popular science Death in Slow Motion: past identities, lost plots and old age in caregiver life-writing 6: Neuro-technologies and narrative examine the failing mind The visual exploration of the brain and fascination with the mind The Dying of the Light: detective fiction claims back patient authority Who Will I Be When I Die?: patient life-writing around the year 2000 Part IV: The Whole-Person Prospects 7: The dichotomy of Alzheimer's disease Immunization hope and hype: the patient as non-responder La guardiana di Ulisse: the patient beyond forgetting in children's literature and adult fiction of the new century Alzheimer mon amour: healthcare changes and patient personality in contemporary caregiver memoirs We Are Not Ourselves: the cultural image of Alzheimer's disease in the twenty-first-century Bildungsroman 8: Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography

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