Forgotten : narratives of age-related dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Canada / Marlene Goldman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780773552272
- 9780773552289
- 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
- RC521 .F674 2017
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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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