[PDF.39qq] Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History

Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History

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 | #1956343 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  2006-02-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.79 x6.00l,1.06 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Perceived as unpersons|By Spring Texan|Mr. Ballenger's experience caring for people with Alzheimer's left him skeptical of the construction that these are humans whose personhood has left them and who remain a mere shell, a sort of not-yet-dead zombie. He traces the changing attitudes toward both old-age mental impairment and toward personhood over time and the benefits and ha| ||"Both science and history blend in a survey of aging and dementia, making for a broad discussion not just of changing American attitudes and culture, but changing health system responses." (California Bookwatch)

|"This work is a major contri

Historian Jesse F. Ballenger traces the emergence of senility as a cultural category from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s, a period in which Alzheimer's disease became increasingly associated with the terrifying prospect of losing one's self. Changes in American society and culture have complicated the notion of selfhood, Ballenger finds. No longer an ascribed status, selfhood must be carefully and willfully constructed. Thus, losing one's ability to sustain ...

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