Thinking About Dementia : Culture, Loss, And the Anthropology of Senility

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking about Dementia 1(22) LAWRENCE COHEN PART ONE Changes in Clinical Practice 1 Dementia-Near-Death and "Life Itself" 23(20) SHARON R. KAUFMAN 2 The Borderlands of Primary Care: Physician and Family Perspectives on "Troublesome" Behaviors of People with Dementia 43(21) LADSON HINTON, YVETTE FLORES, CAROL FRANZ, ISABEL HERNANDEZ, AND LINDA S. MITTENESS 3 Negotiating the Moral Status of Trouble: The Experiences of Forgetful Individuals Diagnosed with No Dementia 64(16) ANDRÉ P. SMITH 4 Diagnosing Dementia: Epidemiological and Clinical Data as Cultural Text 80(26) JANICE E. GRAHAM 5 The Biomedical Deconstruction of Senility and the Persistent Stigmatization of Old Age in the United States 106(17) JESSE F. BALLENGER PART TWO The Role of Genomics in Alzheimer's Research 6 Genetic Susceptibility and Alzheimer's Disease: The Penetrance and Uptake of Genetic Knowledge 123(34) MARGARET LOCK, STEPHANIE LLOYD, AND JANALYN PREST PART THREE The Organization of Voice, Self, or Personhood 7 Coherence without Facticity in Dementia: The Case of Mrs. Fine 157(23) ATHENA HELEN McLEAN 8 Creative Storytelling and Self-Expression among People with Dementia 180(15) ANNE DAVIS BASTING 9 Embodied Selfhood: An Ethnographic Exploration of Alzheimer's Disease 195(23) PIA C. KONTOS 10 Normality and Difference: Institutional Classification and the Constitution of Subjectivity in a Dutch Nursing Home 218(22) ROMA CHATTERJI 11 Divided Gazes: Alzheimer's Disease, the Person within, and Death in Life 240(29) ANNETTE LEIBING 12 Being a Good ROjin: Senility, Power, and Self-Actualization in Japan 269(20) JOHN W. TRAPHAGAN Contributors 289(2) Index 291