Bringing the Social Back in
A Critique of the Biomedicalization of Dementia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23327147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyle A Lyman (0000-0002-3309-7211, University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 597-605 |
| Publication date | 1989-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Gerontologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-9013 • E-ISSN: 1758-5341 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/geront/29.5.597 |
| PMID | 2689293 |
| OpenAlex | W2093969649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 84 |
This paper presents the argument that social gerontologists have adopted a biomedical model of senile dementia, neglecting social factors involved in the definition and interpretation of brain disease and in the experience of dementing illness. This biomedical model is critiqued, including the definition of pathology, the attribution of behavioral changes to disease stages, and the legitimation of medical control over persons with dementing illnesses.
Argument (complex analysis) · Attribution · Dementia · Disease · Interpretation (philosophy) · Legitimation · Linguistics · Pathology · Political science · Psychiatry · Senile dementia · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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Informal Caregiving to Aging Family Members
Our Own Little Language
Beyond V40.31
Senility And Irony's Age
Like He's a Kid
Ethnographic reflections on selfhood, embodiment and Alzheimer's disease
The social and political context of formal dementia care provision
Researching dementia
Concluding narratives of a career with dementia
Teaching Health Care and Aging
Language Socialization Among Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers
Embodied selfhood in Alzheimer's disease
Dementia, Treatment Decisions, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities. A New Framework for Old Problems
Dementia and Dementia Care
Battling the “Invincible Predator”
What Does it Mean to Listen to People with Dementia
The medicalization of dementia
Transgressions and sickness in old age
A paradox of medicalization
Multi-species dementia studies
Forced continuity
Managing disability and enjoying life
Toward a political model of dementia
The controversial promises of cholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
Interpreting the “hidden program” of a place
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
From ‘not a big deal’ to ‘hellish’
Living and loving with dementia
Painting as a form of Material Thinking
Alzheimer's disease and senile dementia, 1885–1920
Experiencing Leisure on a Cognitive Support Unit
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia
Social Care Interface in Early-Stage Dementia
The painterly hand
Dementia and migration
The living dead? The construction of people with Alzheimer's disease as zombies
Dichotomising dementia
Making the best you can of it
Critical condition
Where Person-Centered Care Falls Short
The Evolving Classification of Dementia
Understanding the Diabetic Body-Self
Constructing Alzheimer's
The Experience of Dementia in China
Demenzfreundliche Kommunen in Deutschland und England – ein Blick auf mögliche Perspektiven
A Disembodied Dementia
Cross-Cultural Research on Alzheimer's Disease
Perceptions of dementia, caregiving, and help-seeking among recent Vietnamese immigrants
Sociocultural insights on dementia care-giving in Arab and Muslim communities
In the moment with music
The Politics of Caregiving
The épreuve of ageing with Alzheimer's disease
The Mask of Dementia
Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment
Old Age, Disease, and the Discourse on Risk
Biomedicalization
Deceptive Practices in Managing a Family Member with Alzheimer's Disease
Losing Selves
Liberating the wanderers
Making sense of nonsense
Ethnographic Research in Medical Sociology
This is your home now
Alzheimer's Disease Specialty Care Units and the Loss of Self
Processos De (Des)legitimação Linguístico-Cognitiva
Developing a critical trans gerontology
Expressions of Personhood in Alzheimer's Disease
Always One Step Behind
The process of self-report of impairment in clinical research
Responding to Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease
Transitions in cognitive status among the aged in Japan
"The consequence of "doing nothing
Repelling neoliberal world-making? How the ageing-dementia relation is reassembling the social
The neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia and its ethnicity problem
Toward an Anthropology of Senility
Struggling over Subjectivity
Does Digital Gaming Enable Healthy Aging for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia
Towards a Code of Practice for Effective Communication With People With Dementing Illnesses
| Unique citing works | 84 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2026 (37) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 67 |