Thinking About Dementia : Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility

Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions...

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Main Author: Leibing, Annette (auth)
Other Authors: Cohen, Lawrence (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 20060101
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