Forgotten : narratives of age-related dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Canada / Marlene Goldman.
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TextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 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
- Canada
- Canadian fiction (English) -- History and criticism
- Maladies mentales dans la littérature
- Démence -- Aspect social
- Maladie d'Alzheimer -- Aspect social
- Maladies dans la littérature
- Vieillesse dans la littérature
- Médecine dans la littérature
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Alzheimer's disease -- Social aspects
- Dementia -- Social aspects
- Diseases in literature
- Mental illness in literature
- Old age in literature
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- RC521
- WT 155
- cci1icc
- coll13
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 24, 2017).
A groundbreaking comparison of scientific, popular, and literary approaches to provoke new stories of dementia.
Includes bibliographical references 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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