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Forgotten : narratives of age-related dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Canada / Marlene Goldman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773552272
  • 9780773552289
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RC521 .F674 2017
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Contents:
The rise of the asylum in Ontario and Its impact on Canadian families -- Popular perceptions of aging and dementia in Canada : the theory of waste and repair from the 1860s to the 1960s -- From psychological and stress-based theories of dementia to the triumph of the biomedical paradigm -- A narrative view of deinstitutionalization : Alice Munro's "Powers" -- Tale of two brothers: Andrew Ignatieff and the rise of the Alzheimer Society of Canada -- Gothic and apocalyptic horror: Michael Ignatieff's Scar Tissue -- A history of forgetting : cognitive decline and historical cycles of degeneration -- Unburying the living in Jane Rule's Memory Board and selected stories by Alice Munro.
Subject: A groundbreaking comparison of scientific, popular, and literary approaches to provoke new stories of dementia.
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A groundbreaking comparison of scientific, popular, and literary approaches to provoke new stories of dementia.

Includes bibliographies and index.

A forgotten history : the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century construction of the disease concept -- The rise of the asylum in Ontario and Its impact on Canadian families -- Popular perceptions of aging and dementia in Canada : the theory of waste and repair from the 1860s to the 1960s -- From psychological and stress-based theories of dementia to the triumph of the biomedical paradigm -- A narrative view of deinstitutionalization : Alice Munro's "Powers" -- Tale of two brothers: Andrew Ignatieff and the rise of the Alzheimer Society of Canada -- Gothic and apocalyptic horror: Michael Ignatieff's Scar Tissue -- A history of forgetting : cognitive decline and historical cycles of degeneration -- Unburying the living in Jane Rule's Memory Board and selected stories by Alice Munro.

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