| Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person Contributor(s): Hughes, Julian C. (Editor), Louw, Stephen J. (Editor), Sabat, Steven R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 019856614X ISBN-13: 9780198566144 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $204.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Psychiatry - General - Medical | Mental Health - Medical | Geriatrics |
| Dewey: 616.83 |
| LCCN: 2005019360 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.4 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dementia is an illness that raises important questions about our own attitudes to illness and aging. It also raises very important issues beyond the bounds of dementia to do with how we think of ourselves as people - fundamental questions about personal identity. Is the person with dementia the same person he or she was before? Is the individual with dementia a person at all? In a striking way, dementia seems to threaten the very existence of the self. This book brings together philosophers and practitioners to explore the conceptual issues that arise in connection with this increasingly common illness. Drawing on a variety of philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, Hume, Wittgenstein, the authors explore the nature of personal identity in dementia. They also show how the lives and selfhood of people with dementia can be enhanced by attention to their psychosocial and spiritual environment. |