Annette Leibing, Lawrence Cohen

Broschiertes Buch

Thinking about Dementia

Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility

Beschreibung

Explores the historical, psychological, and philosophical implications of dementia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book employs a cross-cultural perspective and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect.

Autor

Annette Leibing is a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a researcher at the Institute of Social Gerontology of Quebec and MOS/Universit de Montral. Lawrence Cohen is an associate professor of anthropology and South and Southeast Asian studies, and director of the Medical Anthropology Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 299
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9780813538037
• ISBN-10: 0813538033
• Artikelnr.: 21459174