Dementia Mind, Meaning, and the Person [Hardcover]

1. Seeing whole,Julian C Hughes, Stephen J Louw & Steven R Sabat
2. Ageing and human nature,Michael Bavidge
3. Dementia and personal identity,Harry Lesser
4. Identity: self and dementia,John McMillan
5. Into the darkness: losing identity with dementia,Jennifer Radden & Joan M Fordyce
6. Can the self disintegrate? Personal identity, psychopathology and disunities of consciousness,E Jonathan Lowe
7. Keeping track, autobiography and the conditions for self erosion,Michael Luntley
8. The discursive turn, social constructionism and dementia,Tim Thornton
9. The return of the living dead: agency lost and found?,Carmelo Aquilina & Julian C Hughes
10. Dementia and the identity of the person,Eric Matthews
11. Meaning-making in dementia: a hermeneutic perspective,Guy A M Widdershoven & Ron L P Berghmans
12. I am, thou art: personal identity in dementia,Catherine Oppenheimer
13. Spiritual perspectives on the person with dementia: identity and personhood,F Brian Allen & Peter G Coleman
14. 'Respectare': moral respect for the lives of the deeply forgetful,Stephen G Post
15. Understandings of dementia: explanatory models and their implications for the person with dementia and therapeutic effort,Murna Downs, Linda Clare & Jenny Mackenzie
16. Personhood and interpersonal communication in dementia,Lisa Snyder
17. From childhood to childhood? Autonomy and dependence through the ages of life,Harry Cayton
18. Mind, meaning and personhood in dementia: the effects of positioning,Steven R Sabat

It is a worthwhile read for anyone working with people with dementia and will repay the time and effort involved. Using a range of philosophical perspectives, it explores some fascinating questions about the nature of self: is the person with dementia the same person as they l3„