Forgotten : narratives of age-related dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Canada / Marlene Goldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Marlene, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senile dementia--Social aspects.

Senile dementia.

Alzheimer's disease--Social aspects.

Alzheimer's disease.

Diseases in literature.

Old age in literature.

Mental illness in literature.

Canadian fiction--20th century--Themes, motives.

Canadian fiction.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Dementia.

Alzheimer Disease.

Themes, motives.

Medical Subjects:

Dementia.

Alzheimer Disease.

Physical Description:

x, 438 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]

Summary:

A groundbreaking comparison of scientific, popular, and literary approaches to provoke new stories of dementia.

Contents:

1 A Forgotten History: The Late-Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Construction of the Disease Concept 47

2 The Rise of the Asylum in Ontario and Its Impact on Canadian Families 78

3 Popular Perceptions of Aging and Dementia in Canada: The Theory of Waste and Repair from the 1860s to the 1960s 109

4 From Psychological and Stress-Based Theories of Dementia to the Triumph of the Biomedical Paradigm 149

5 A Narrative View of Deinstitutionalization: Alice Munro's "Powers" 178

6 A Tale of Two Brothers: Andrew Ignatieff and the Rise of the Alzheimer Society of Canada 193

7 Gothic and Apocalyptic Horror: Michael Ignatieff's Scar Tissue 216

8 A History of forgetting: Cognitive Decline and Historical Cycles of Degeneration 238

9 Unburying the Living in Jane Rule's Memory Board and Selected Stories by Alice Munro 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-428) and index.

"Works on dementia in Canada": pages 395-397.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Goldman, Marlene, 1963- Forgotten.

ISBN:

0773550933

9780773550933

0773550925

9780773550926

OCLC:

985838225