Dementia Mind, Meaning, and the Person

by Hughes, Julian C.; Louw, Stephen J.; Sabat, Steven R.

• ISBN13: 9780191754418
• ISBN10: 0191754412
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2013-02-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Dr. Julian C. Hughes is currently the Chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Stephen J. Louw is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of South Africa, of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is currently Vice Chair of the UK Network for Clinical Ethics Committees. He was formerly Professor of Geriatric Medicine in the University of Cape Town. Prof. Steven R. Sabat is Associate Editor of Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington, D.C. chapter of the Alzheimer's Disease Association and has been a Co-Leader of a support group for people with Alzheimer's Disease.

Table of Contents

1. Seeing whole, Julian C Hughes, Stephen J Louw & Steven R Sabat
2. Ageing and human nature, Michael Bavidge
3. Dementia and personal identity, A. Harry Lesser
4. Identity: self and dementia, John McMillan
5. Into the darkness: losing identity with dementia, Jennifer Radden & Joan M Fordyce
6. Can the self disintegrate? Personal identity, psychopathology and disunities of consciousness, E. Jonathan Lowe
7. Keeping track, autobiography and the conditions for self erosion, Michael Luntley
8. The discursive turn, social constructionism and dementia, Tim Thornton
9. The return of the living dead: agency lost and found?, Carmelo Aquilina & Julian C. Hughes
10. Dementia and the identity of the person, Eric Matthews
11. Meaning-making in dementia: a hermeneutic perspective, Guy A M Widdershoven & Ron L P Berghmans
12. I am, thou art: personal identity in dementia, Catherine Oppenheimer
13. Spiritual perspectives on the person with dementia: identity and personhood, F Brian Allen & Peter G Coleman
14. 'Respectare': moral respect for the lives of the deeply forgetful, Stephen G Post
15. Understandings of dementia: explanatory models and their implications for the person with dementia and therapeutic effort, Murna Downs, Linda Clare & Jenny Mackenzie
16. Personhood and interpersonal communication in dementia, Lisa Snyder
17. From childhood to childhood? Autonomy and dependence through the ages of life, Harry Cayton
18. Mind, meaning and personhood in dementia: the effects of positioning, Steven R Sabat