{"product_id":"reconsidering-dementia-narratives-9781032570624","title":"Reconsidering Dementia Narratives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReconsidering Dementia Narratives\u003c\/em\u003e explores the role of narrative in developing new ways of understanding, interacting with, and caring for people with dementia. It asks how the stories we tell about dementia  in fiction, life writing and film  both reflect and shape the way we think about this important condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlighting the need to attend to embodied and relational aspects of identity in dementia, the study further outlines ways in which narratives may contribute to dementia care, while disputing the idea that the modes of empathy fostered by narrative necessarily bring about more humane care practices. This cross-medial analysis represents an interdisciplinary approach to dementia narratives which range across auto\/biography, graphic narrative, novel, film, documentary and collaborative storytelling practices. The book aims to clarify the limits and affordances of narrative, and narrative studies, in relation to an ethically driven medical humanities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bitenc's text immerses readers in a retelling of the care and social justice issues surrounding dementia, thereby introducing them to medical humanities. She advocates that the corpus of autobiographical dementia narratives be expanded through the inclusion of pertinent novels, films, documentaries, and storytellings. Bitenc’s working definition of dementia addresses the Alzheimer’s scenario.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. General readers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--L. R. Barley, York College, CHOICE Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements; Preface; List of Illustrations; \u003cb\u003eIntroduction: Reconsidering Dementia Narratives; \u003c\/b\u003eTwo Starting Points; Why Narrative?; Biomedicine and the Cultural Meaning of Dementia; A Brief History of Dementia; Demography and Demonization; Reconsidering Dementia: Reparative Moves; The Alzheimer’s ‘Epidemic’: Care, Cost and Social Justice; Literary Dementia Studies and the Medical Humanities; Illness Narratives: Countering Master Narratives and Exploring the Experience of Illness; Outline of Chapters; \u003cb\u003ePart I Storytelling, Experience and Empathy; Chapter 1 Narrating Experiences of Dementia: Embodied Selves, Embodied Communication; \u003c\/b\u003eEmbodied Selves, Embodied Communication; Inside Views: Life Writing by People with Early-Onset Dementia; Memory; Language; Perception, Movement and the Senses; Emotions and Cognition; Time; The Social World: Intimate Relationships and Strangers; The Experience of Flow in Dementia; From the Caregiver’s Perspective: Intersubjectivity in David Sieveking’s Documentary \u003ci\u003eVergiss Mein Nicht; \u003c\/i\u003eViewing Symptoms of Dementia; The Communicating Body in Film; Embodied Selves and Relational Selves; Conclusion; \u003cb\u003eChapter 2 From the Outside in? Experience and Empathy in Fictional Dementia Narratives; \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Alice\u003c\/i\u003e: From Fiction to Film; Experiencing Dementia\/Experimenting with the Novel; \u003ci\u003eOut of Mind; House Mother Normal; The Unconsoled; \u003c\/i\u003eConcluding Reflections on Narrative Empathy; \u003cb\u003ePart II Life Writing, Self-Writing and Creating Identities; Chapter 3 Life Writing at the Limits: Narrative Identity and Counter-Narratives in Dementia; \u003c\/b\u003eNarrative Identity in Dementia: Friend or Foe?; Reconsidering Master and Counter-Narratives; The Problem of Counter-Narratives in Dementia: Reading First-Person Accounts by People with Dementia; Coherence in ‘Broken’ Counter-Narratives: ‘Mrs Mill’ and Other Stories; Janet’s Story: Confabulation, Continuity, and Agency; Counter-Narratives in Context: The Editor’s Role; Conclusion; \u003cb\u003eChapter 4 Relational Identity in (Filial) Caregivers’ Memoirs; \u003c\/b\u003eThe Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics of Caregivers’ Memoirs; Gender, Genre and the Self: Rethinking Relational Identity in Dementia; \u003ci\u003eMy Father’s Brain; Do You Remember Me? A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self; Tangles\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eA Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me; \u003c\/i\u003eConclusion; \u003cb\u003ePart III Narrating Dementia\/Rethinking Care; Chapter 5 Care-Writing Reconsidered: Towards a New Practice of Dementia Care; \u003c\/b\u003eExploring Caregivers’ Dilemmas; Care or Coercion? Autonomy in Dementia; ‘Bad Grooming’: Intimate Care in Dementia; ‘No Good Choices’: Institutionalisation in Dementia; Imagining Alternative Approaches in Dementia Care; Reconsidering Confabulation; The Power of Music; From Control to Letting Go: Being With vs. Symptom Management; Challenging Care Practice; Conclusion; \u003cb\u003eChapter 6 Making Readers Care: Bioethics and the Novel; \u003c\/b\u003eEthics and the Novel: Countering, Stereotyping and Disturbing; \u003ci\u003eScar Tissue\u003c\/i\u003e: Biomedicine and the Hermeneutics of Selfhood; Narrative and Neuroimaging: Raising Epistemological Questions; \u003ci\u003eHouse Mother Normal\u003c\/i\u003e: Disturbing Care; Exploring Bioethics: ‘Living Through’ as ‘Thinking Through’; \u003ci\u003eStill Alice\u003c\/i\u003e: (Precedent) Autonomy and Suicide in Dementia; Mode, Medium and the Suicide Plot; \u003ci\u003eHave the Men Had Enough?\u003c\/i\u003e Gender and the Economies of Care; Conclusion; \u003cb\u003eDementia Narratives and Beyond; Index\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019121852759,"sku":"9781032570624","price":37.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032570624.jpg?v=1750779374","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reconsidering-dementia-narratives-9781032570624","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}