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Dementia
Mind, Meaning, and the Person
Edited by Julian Hughes, Stephen Louw, and Steven R Sabat
328 pages
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2 diagrams; 6 halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-856614-4
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Hardback
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08 December 2005
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- Includes an introductory chapter setting the scene for an understanding of dementia and of the background philosophical thought, enabling those from either philosophy or psychiatry to appreciate the issues in the other discipline.
- Includes case histories and personal accounts from those with dementia, giving the reader an insight into the reality of this illness
- Juxtaposes philosophical analysis and clinical experience, presenting a unique overview of the issues that is stimulating and allows the philosophical perspectives and those of practitioners to be mutually informing
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. Throughout, the book conveys a strong ethical message, arguing in favour of treating people with dementia with all the dignity they deserve as human beings. The book covers a range of topics, stretching from talk of basic biology to talk of a spiritual understanding of people with dementia. Accessibly written by leading figures in psychiatry and philosophy, the book presents a
unique and long overdue examination of an illness that features in so many of our lives.Readership: Old age psychiatrists, geriatricians, neurologists, gerontologists; Philosophers, ethicists.
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Edited by Julian Hughes, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, North Tyneside General Hospital; Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Institute for Ageing and Health, University of Newcastle, UK, Stephen Louw, Consultant Physician, Clinical Director for Medicine and Care of the Elderly, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and Steven R Sabat, Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington D.C, USA Contributors:
F Brian Allen, St Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Carmelo Aquilina, Queen's Resource Centre, Croydon, UK
Michael Bavidge, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Ron L P Berghmans,
Harry Cayton, Department of Health, London, UK
Linda Clare, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Peter G Coleman, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, UK
Murna Downs, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Joan M Fordyce, Canterbury, Victoria, Australia
Julian C Hughes, POAS, North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields, UK
Harry Lesser, Centre for Philosophy, University of Manchester, UK
Stephen J Louw, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
E Jonathan Lowe, Department of Philosophy, University of Durham, UK
Michael Luntley, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
John
McMillan, Philosophy Department, University of Hull, UK
Jenny Mackenzie, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Eric Matthews, Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, UK
Catherine Oppenheimer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
Stephen G Post, Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Jennifer Radden, Philosophy Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Steven R Sabat, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Lisa Snyder, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Tim Thornton, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Guy A M Widdershoven, Dept of Healthcare
Ethics & Philosophy, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
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"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 "this book will challenge the foundations of caring strategies and practices." - International Psychogeriatrics, Volume 19/4
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1: Julian C Hughes, Stephen J Louw & Steven R Sabat: Seeing whole
2: Michael Bavidge: Ageing and human nature
3: 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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