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xvi, 310 pages |
| Series |
International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry |
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International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
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| 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 -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Dementia -- Philosophy.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Self (Philosophy)
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Dementia.
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Aged.
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Dementia -- psychology.
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Personhood.
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Professional-Patient Relations -- ethics.
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Self Concept.
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| Author |
Hughes, Julian
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Louw, Stephen.
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Sabat, Steven R.
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| LC no. |
2005019360 |
| ISBN |
0198566158 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780198566151 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780198566144 hardback alkaline paper |
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019856614X hardback alkaline paper |
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