Thinking about dementia : culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility /
Cultural responses to most illnesses differ; dementia is no exception. These responses, together with a society's attitudes toward its elderly population, affect the frequency of dementia-related diagnoses and the nature of treatment. Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, thi...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2006]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Studies in medical anthropology.
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