Forgotten : narratives of age-related dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Canada /
Goldman, Marlene, 1963-
Forgotten : narratives of age-related dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Canada / Marlene Goldman. - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource
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.
A groundbreaking comparison of scientific, popular, and literary approaches to provoke new stories of dementia.
9780773552272 9780773552289
(AMICUS)000045243838
Dementia--Social aspects.
Alzheimer's disease--Social aspects.
Diseases in literature.
Old age in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Alzheimer Disease--ethnology
Alzheimer Disease--history
Medicine in Literature
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Canadian fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
RC521 / .F674 2017
Forgotten : narratives of age-related dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Canada / Marlene Goldman. - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource
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.
A groundbreaking comparison of scientific, popular, and literary approaches to provoke new stories of dementia.
9780773552272 9780773552289
(AMICUS)000045243838
Dementia--Social aspects.
Alzheimer's disease--Social aspects.
Diseases in literature.
Old age in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Alzheimer Disease--ethnology
Alzheimer Disease--history
Medicine in Literature
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Canadian fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
RC521 / .F674 2017