How We Think about Dementia: Personhood, Rights, Ethics, the Arts and What They Mean for Care
Autor Julian C. Hughesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iul 2014
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ISBN-13: 9781849054775
ISBN-10: 1849054770
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 2 black and white photographs
Dimensiuni: 154 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
ISBN-10: 1849054770
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 2 black and white photographs
Dimensiuni: 154 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
Notă biografică
Professor Julian C. Hughes is Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Professor of Philosophy of Ageing at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre, Newcastle University. He is co-author of Ethical Issues in Dementia Care: Making Difficult Decisions, also published by JKP. He lives in Newcastle, UK.
Cuprins
Preface. Introduction. Part I: Ageing. 1. Our Changing Expectations of Life: What Do We Really Want? 2. Research, Ageing and Dementia. Part II: Personhood. 3. Memory: Inner or Outer? 4. I am still the same person. 5. The Body in Dementia. Part III: Capacity and Incapacity. 6. 'Capacity': What is it and so what? 7. Capacity Legislation in Practice: Balancing Personal and Polis. 8. Incapacity and Mental Disorder. Part IV: Palliative and Supportive Care. 9. Beyond Hypercognitivism. 10. Understanding the Language of Distress. 11. Ethics, Patterns, Causes and Pathways: In Pursuit of Good Palliative Care. 12. Intentions and Best Interests: Dying and Killing. Part V: Arts. 13. The Art and Practice of Memory and Forgetting co-authored with Ashley McCormick, artist, curator and educator. 14. In Praise of 'Negative Capability': Keats and Killick. Conclusion: Care ? Solicitude and Solidarity. References and Further Reading. Index.