<P><EM>Reconsidering Dementia Narratives</EM> explores the role of narrative in developing new ways of understanding, interacting with, and caring for people with dementia. It asks how the stories we tell about dementia ¿ in fiction, life writing and film ¿ both reflect and shape the way we think about this important condition.</P><br/><br/><P>Highlighting the need to attend to embodied and relational aspects of identity in dementia, the study further outlines ways in which narratives may contribute to dementia care, while disputing the idea that the modes of empathy fostered by narrative necessarily bring about more humane care practices. This cross-medial analysis represents an interdisciplinary approach to dementia narratives which range across auto/biography, graphic narrative, novel, film, documentary and collaborative storytelling practices. The book aims to clarify the limits and affordances of narrative, and narrative studies, in relation to an ethically driven medical humaniti
Pris: kr 499.00 fra Norli
Butikk | Pris | |
---|---|---|
kr 499.00 | Besøk butikk |
This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama.
kr 499.00
Mer informasjon
Expropriation is a hotly debated issue in international investment law. This book applies the insights of legal theory to analyse expropriation clauses in investment treaties, clarifying what expropriation is and how to apply the unspecific prescriptions...
kr 369.00
Mer informasjon
Challenging the long-standing idea that translations do not bear the same literary or historical weight as the supposed originals upon which they are based, this book shows that vernacular manuscripts tell us a great deal about medieval culture, especially...
kr 979.00
Mer informasjon