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Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The poetics and politics of Alzheimer's disease life-writingby Martina Zimmermann.
Author:	Zimmermann, Martina.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	viii, 167 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Alzheimer's diseasePsychological aspects.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44388-1
ISBN:	9783319443881$q(electronic bk.)

The poetics and politics of Alzheimer's disease life-writing
Zimmermann, Martina.

The poetics and politics of Alzheimer's disease life-writing[electronic resource] /by Martina Zimmermann. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - viii, 167 p. :digital ;22 cm. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine..

Introduction: Critically Reading Dementia Narratives: Amplifying Advocacy -- Chapter 1: Of Wives and Daughters: The Stereotype of Caring Females? -- Chapter 2: From a "Care-Free" Distance: Sons Talking About Cultural Concepts -- Chapter 3: About Tradition and Triumph: Patients Popularise Dementia Narrative -- Chapter 4: On Reclaiming Authority: The Enabling Discourse of Alzheimer's Disease -- Conclusion: Dementia Narratives - Shifter of Perspectives and Values -- Bibliography -- Works Cited -- Index.

Open access.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 'Despite the recent spate of books about Alzheimer's disease by doctors, patients, and caregivers, no other writer to my knowledge has attempted to do what the humanities scholar and research scientist Martina Zimmermann has accomplished here: an analysis of dementia narratives attuned to the medical, political, sociological, ethical, and poetic aspects--that is, the full human experience--of living with inexorable, unforgiving cognitive decline.' - Eileen Gillooly, Columbia University, USA 'This very fine study reflects capacious knowledge and insight into a condition that, as the author suggests, is one of the most complex and fraught for patients and caregivers, and one of the most misunderstood by policy makers. The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing offers an important intervention at a critical time, and deserves to meet with a wide readership.' - Jane F. Thrailkill, University of North Carolina, USA This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what narrative plot do they adapt; and how do they draw on established strategies of life-writing. It also analyses how these accounts engage with the culturally dominant Alzheimer's narrative that centres on dependence and vulnerability, and addresses how they relate to discourses of gender and aging. Linking literary scholarship to the medico-scientific understanding of dementia as a neurodegenerative condition, this book argues that, first, patients' articulations must be made central to dementia discourse; and second, committed alleviation of caregiver burden through social support systems and altered healthcare policies requires significantly altered views about aging, dementia, and Alzheimer's patients. Martina Zimmermann has fifteen years of research and teaching experience in Pharmacology, and is Privatdozentin at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her scholarly interests have increasingly shifted towards the Health Humanities: with an MA in Literature and Medicine, she currently researches for a book on dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the 20th Century at King's College London, UK, funded by the Wellcome Trust.

ISBN: 9783319443881$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-44388-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

787622
Alzheimer's disease
--Psychological aspects.

LC Class. No.: RC523 / .Z56 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 616.8311

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