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Author:   Julian Hughes (Conultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, Northumbria Healthcare, NHS Trust and Institute for Ageing and Health, University of Newcastle, UK) ,  Stephen Louw (Consultant Physician in Medicine and Geriatric Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) ,  Steven R Sabat (Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780198566151

ISBN 10:   0198566158
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   08 December 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Julian C Hughes, Stephen J Louw & Steven R Sabat: Seeing whole 2: Michael Bavidge: Ageing and human nature 3: A. Harry Lesser: Dementia and personal identity 4: John McMillan: Identity: self and dementia 5: Jennifer Radden & Joan M Fordyce: Into the darkness: losing identity with dementia 6: E. Jonathan Lowe: Can the self disintegrate? Personal identity, psychopathology and disunities of consciousness 7: Michael Luntley: Keeping track, autobiography and the conditions for self erosion 8: Tim Thornton: The discursive turn, social constructionism and dementia 9: Carmelo Aquilina & Julian C. Hughes: The return of the living dead: agency lost and found? 10: Eric Matthews: Dementia and the identity of the person 11: Guy A M Widdershoven & Ron L P Berghmans: Meaning-making in dementia: a hermeneutic perspective 12: Catherine Oppenheimer: I am, thou art: personal identity in dementia 13: F Brian Allen & Peter G Coleman: Spiritual perspectives on the person with dementia: identity and personhood 14: Stephen G Post: 'Respectare': moral respect for the lives of the deeply forgetful 15: Murna Downs, Linda Clare & Jenny Mackenzie: Understandings of dementia: explanatory models and their implications for the person with dementia and therapeutic effort 16: Lisa Snyder: Personhood and interpersonal communication in dementia 17: Harry Cayton: From childhood to childhood? Autonomy and dependence through the ages of life 18: Steven R Sabat: Mind, meaning and personhood in dementia: the effects of positioning

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Accessibly written by leading figures in dementia care, psychiatry, and philosophy, the book presents a unique examination of an illness that will affect our lives directly or indirectly and promotes a person-centered approach to dementia care. The book is recommended for a broad audience of health care providers and family caregivers. Helen Lavretsky MD, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 69:8 ...this book constitutes a unique and valuable contribution to the field, contextualizing understandings of selfhood and identity in dementia in a broad philosophical and theological literature. ...his collection of chapters is bound to inform and challenge readers of the Dementia journal to think broadly about both understandings of dementia and of personal identity more generally. Dementia 6(2), The book covers not only the philosophical but also social, spiritual, ethical and practical perspectives and the negative, soul-destroying attitudes about dementia in modern society...This is a good book. It will not change base metal into gold but via a mosaic of ideas introduces a way of thinking. Ostensibly it is about dementia...about what it is to be human. British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 190 It is clear from this collection that bodily intentionality, spiritual and religious faith, emotion and relational capacity must count as morally relevant features of the person whose self-consciousness and memory have faded. One hopes that Dementia: Mind, Meaning and the Person will inspire further philosophical quests for a more exhaustive and inclusive understanding of personhood and the application of such insights to practice. Ageing and Society

Author Information

Dr Julian C. Hughes is currently the Chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Dr Stephen J. Louw is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of South Africa, of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is currently Vice Chair of the UK Network for Clinical Ethics Committees. He was formerly Professor of Geriatric Medicine in the University of Cape Town. Professor Steven R. Sabat is Associate Editor of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington D.C. chapter of the Alzheimer's Disease Association and has been a co-leader of a support group for people with Alzheimer's disease. He is currently Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University.

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