{"product_id":"the-diseased-brain-and-the-failing-mind-dementia-in-science-medicine-and-literature-of-the-long-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind: Dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the Long Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartina Zimmermann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Wellcome Trust\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind\u003c\/i\u003e charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changing scientific understandings of dementia, the book also demonstrates how cultural expressions of the experience and dementia have fed back into the way medical institutions have treated dementia patients.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book includes a glossary of scientific terms for non-specialist readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartina Zimmermann\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the University of Warwick, UK, and is Privatdozentin at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She trained as a pharmaceutical scientist and specialized in neuropharmacology before moving into research in the health humanities. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). She has recently been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship with which she returns to the Department of English at King's College London, where this monograph had been researched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837593772229,"sku":"9781350249363","price":77.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/15i2gGmHhk9781350249363.webp?v=1771281804","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-diseased-brain-and-the-failing-mind-dementia-in-science-medicine-and-literature-of-the-long-twentieth-century-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}