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The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimers Disease Life-Writing
Martina Zimmermann
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Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK; MJND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what narrative plot do they adapt; and how do they draw on established strategies of life-writing. It also analyses how these accounts engage with the culturally dominant Alzheimer’s narrative that centres on dependence and vulnerability, ... Read more
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what narrative plot do they adapt; and how do they draw on established strategies of life-writing. It also analyses how these accounts engage with the culturally dominant Alzheimer’s narrative that centres on dependence and vulnerability, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Number of Pages
167
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319443874
SKU
V9783319443874
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About Martina Zimmermann
Martina Zimmermann has fifteen years of research and teaching experience in Pharmacology, and is Privatdozentin at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her scholarly interests have increasingly shifted towards the Health Humanities: with an MA in Literature and Medicine, she currently researches for a book on dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the 20th Century at King’s College London, funded by ... Read more
Reviews for The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimers Disease Life-Writing
“Martina Zimmermann’s The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing is not only essential reading for anyone who has an interest in patient narratives or medical humanities broadly but is also helpful in changing the general cultural discourse that surrounds the ways in which Alzheimer’s patients are discussed. … the first study of many that seek to change the public ... Read more