Ordinary Prosthetics
An Essay on Dementia and Alienation in Quebec
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6016151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Leibing (0000-0003-2658-3497, Université de Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2025.2597226 |
| PMID | 41324972 |
| OpenAlex | W4416868165 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 48 |
Based on fieldwork in Quebec, in a home for 14 older people who were diagnosed with dementia - the Carpe Diem - the central proposal of this article is to suggest "alienation" as a way to rethink dementia care. This is based on the insight that the notion of personhood can become a fallacy of care when understood as continuity with the past and empathy, as is often the case in person-centered care. Alienation here consists of three central elements: ordinariness, prosthetics, and a critical reflection on origins, by paying attention to "what is wrong" in assemblages of care
Relations
Ecology and the aging process.
‘Lost in time like tears in rain’
Care Beyond Repair
A person-centred problem
From Alienation to Forms of Life
Being Alive
Innovation sociale et travail institutionnel
The critique of alienation and the integration of the actor's perspective
Dementia and the inter-embodied self
Prosthesis and the engineered imagination
Dilemmas of intervention
Dementia and the gender trouble
Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin?”
On the Philosophical Foundation of the Concept of Labor in Economics
Textures of the Ordinary
The Gender of the GiftProblems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia
Visceral Prostheses
Facing Objects
Forgetting and remembering alienation theory
Human and Person When Life Is Fragile
Dementia and the Limits to Life
Of ordinariness and citizenship processes
Transpersonal Ether
Identity perplexity, stigma, and social critique
Capitalism and alienation
Against Posthumanism
Care in Trouble
Politics of Care
Facilitated personhood
Maintaining ordinariness in dementia care
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |