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Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person

Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person

Sabat, Steven R.
Hughes, Julian
Louw, Stephen

Hardcover

Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 019856614X
ISBN13: 9780198566144
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: Jan 26 2006
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Dementia is an illness that raises important questions about our own attitudes to illness and aging. It also raises very important issues beyond the bounds of dementia to do with how we think of ourselves as people - fundamental questions about personal identity. Is the person with dementia the same person he or she was before? Is the individual with dementia a person at all? In a striking way, dementia seems to threaten the very existence of the self. This book brings together philosophers and practitioners to explore the conceptual issues that arise in connection with this increasingly common illness. Drawing on a variety of philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, Hume, Wittgenstein, the authors explore the nature of personal identity in dementia. They also show how the lives and selfhood of people with dementia can be enhanced by attention to their psychosocial and spiritual environment.

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