4. Diagnosing Dementia: Epidemiological and Clinical Data as Cultural Text

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Introduction: Thinking about Dementia 1
5. PART ONE. Changes in Clinical Practice
6. 1. Dementia-Near-Death and “Life Itself” 23
7. 2. The Borderlands of Primary Care: Physician and Family Perspectives on “Troublesome” Behaviors of People with Dementia 43
8. 3. Negotiating the Moral Status of Trouble: The Experiences of Forgetful Individuals Diagnosed with No Dementia 64
9. 4. Diagnosing Dementia: Epidemiological and Clinical Data as Cultural Text 80
10. 5. The Biomedical Deconstruction of Senility and the Persistent Stigmatization of Old Age in the United States 106
11. PART TWO. The Role of Genomics in Alzheimer’s Research
12. 6. Genetic Susceptibility and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Penetrance and Uptake of Genetic Knowledge 123
13. PART THREE. The Organization of Voice, Self, or Personhood
14. 7. Coherence without Facticity in Dementia: The Case of Mrs. Fine 157
15. 8. Creative Storytelling and Self-Expression among People with Dementia 180
16. 9. Embodied Selfhood: An Ethnographic Exploration of Alzheimer’s Disease 195
17. 10. Normality and Difference: Institutional Classification and the Constitution of Subjectivity in a Dutch Nursing Home 218
18. 11. Divided Gazes: Alzheimer’s Disease, the Person within, and Death in Life 240
19. 12 Being a Good Rōjin: Senility, Power, and Self-Actualization in Japan 269
20. CONTRIBUTORS 289
21. INDEX 291