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How we think about dementia : personhood, rights, ethics, the arts and what they mean for care / Julian C. Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Julian C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dementia.
- Dementia--Philosophy.
- Dementia--Patients--Care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Providing a much-needed accessible overview of the complex philosophical and ethical underpinnings of dementia care, this book explores current thinking around the concepts of ageing, personhood, capacity, liberty, best interests and the nature of palliative care, shedding new light on their implications for the caring professions.
- Contents:
- How We Think About Dementia: Personhood, Rights, Ethics, the Arts and What They Mean for Care; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I Ageing; Chapter 1: Our Changing Expectations of Life: What Do We Really Want?; Chapter 2: Research, Ageing and Dementia; Part II Personhood; Chapter 3 Memory: Inner or Outer?; Chapter 4 I Am Still the Same Person; Chapter 5 The Body in Dementia; Part III Capacity and Incapacity; Chapter 6; Chapter 6 'Capacity': What Is It and So What?; Chapter 7 Capacity Legislation in Practice: Balancing the Personal and the Polis
- Chapter 8 Incapacity and Mental DisorderPart IV Palliative and Supportive Care; Chapter 9 Beyond Hypercognitivism; Chapter 10 Understanding the Language of Distress; Chapter 11 Ethics, Patterns, Causes and Pathways: In Pursuit of Good Palliative Care; Chapter 12 Intentions and Best Interests: Dying and Killing; Part V Arts; Chapter 13 The Art and Practice of Memory and Forgetting; Chapter 14 In Praise of 'Negative Capability': Keats and Killick; Conclusion Care - Solicitude and solidarity; References; Further Reading; Subject Index; Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857008558 $q (electronic bk.)
- 9780857008558
- 0857008552
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