The diseased brain and the failing mind : dementia in science, medicine and literature of the long twentieth century / Martina Zimmermann.
- 作者： Zimmermann, Martina (Researcher in health humanities) author.
- 其他題名：
- Explorations in science and literature
- 出版： London :New York : Bloomsbury Academic 2020.
- 叢書名： Explorations in science and literature
- 主題： Dementia in literature. , Literature and science , History , Literature, Modern , History and criticism. , Medicine in literature. , Dementia in literature. , Literature and science--History--20th century. , Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century , Medicine in literature.
- ISBN： 9781350121805 (hardcover) 、 9781350249363 (paperback): NT$964
- 一般註："This paperback edition published in 2020"--colophon
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-256) and index.
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讀者標籤：
- 系統號： 005689810 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
"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"--