Goldman, Marlene,  1963- <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> A groundbreaking comparison of scientific, popular, and literary approaches to provoke new stories of dementia. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780773552272 9780773552289 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>(AMICUS)000045243838 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dementia--Social aspects.<br/>Alzheimer's disease--Social aspects.<br/>Diseases in literature.<br/>Old age in literature.<br/>Mental illness in literature.<br/>Medicine in literature.<br/>Alzheimer Disease--ethnology<br/>Alzheimer Disease--history<br/>Medicine in Literature<br/>History, 19th Century<br/>History, 20th Century<br/>Canadian fiction (English)--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC521  / .F674 2017