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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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desLibris. Books collection.
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| Summary |
A groundbreaking comparison of scientific, popular, and literary approaches to provoke new stories of dementia. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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" -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dementia -- Social aspects.
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Dementia -- Social aspects. |
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Dementia. |
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Alzheimer's disease -- Social aspects.
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Alzheimer's disease -- Social aspects. |
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Alzheimer's disease. |
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Diseases in literature.
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Diseases in literature. |
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Old age in literature.
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Old age in literature. |
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Mental illness in literature.
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Mental illness in literature. |
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Canadian fiction (English) -- History and criticism. |
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Canada. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Essay.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Goldman, Marlene, 1963- Forgotten. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017 0773550933 9780773550933 (OCoLC)985838225 |
| ISBN |
9780773552272 (electronic book) |
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0773552278 (electronic book) |
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9780773552289 (electronic book) |
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0773552286 (electronic book) |
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9780773550933 |
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0773550933 |
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9780773550926 |
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0773550925 |
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