Understand Dementia and Literature
Dementia and Literature By:Tess Maginess Published on 2017-08-14 by Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities ( DOWNLOAD NOW ) Dementia is an urgent global concern, often termed a widespread �problem�, �tragedy� or �burden� and a subject best addressed by health and social policy and practice. However, creative writers can offer powerful and imaginative insights into the experience of dementia across cultures and over time. This cross-disciplinary volume explores how engaging with dementia through its myriad literary representations can help to deepen and humanise attitudes to people living with the condition. Offering and interrogating a wide array of perspectives about how dementia might be �imagined�, this book allows us to see how different ways of being can inflect one another. By drawing on the �lived� experience of the individual unique person and their loved ones, literature can contribute to a deeper and more compassionate and more liberating attitude to a phenomenon that i...