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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Marlene, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Diseases in literature.

Dementia in literature.

Dementia--Social aspects.

Dementia.

Alzheimer's disease--Social aspects.

Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease in literature.

Old age in literature.

Mental illness in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Why Apocalypse Now?

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”

A 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

From the Gothic to Brecht's Epic Theatre

Notes

Works on Dementia in Canada

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 17, 2017).

ISBN:

9780773552289

0773552286

9780773552272

0773552278

OCLC:

1006793266