The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind

Dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the Long Twentieth Century

Bibliographic Data

ID5773553
AuthorsAnton Kirchhofer, Martina Zimmermann (0000-0003-4274-6145, corresponding author), Janine Rogers, John Holmes (0000-0001-9283-2151)
Year2020
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5040/9781350121836
OpenAlexW4245873472
Open LibraryOL29454104M
ISBN9781350121836
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited10

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

Empathy and Medical Education · Neurology and Historical Studies · Démence dans la littérature · Dementia in literature · History · History and criticism · Literary studies: from c 1900 · Literature · Literature and science · Littérature · Littérature et sciences · Modern Literature

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