A Critical History of Dementia Studies (Paperback, 1)

Introduction; Part I: Paradigms; 1. Pathologisation, (bio)medicalisation & biopolitics; 2. The century without a war: Kitwood's concept of malignant social psychology and the need for historicisation in dementia studies; Part II: Discourses; 3. Language about people with dementia; 4. A Semiotic analysis of meanings of dementia around the world; 5. Literary dementia studies: from managing estrangement to imaginatively reconceptualizing forgetfulness; Part III: Intersectionalities; 6. Gender awareness and feminist approaches in dementia studies; 7. "On my good days, I can […] almost pass for a normal person": reading the film Still Alice using the conceptual lens of heteronormativity; 8. Race, ethnicity and culture: problematic application in dementia and old age; Part IV: Methodologies; 9. ‘Whose story is it and what is it for?’: Life story as critical discourse in dementia studies; 10. From symptoms to citizenship: A critical reading of the perceived value of arts and culture in a dementia context; Part V: Politics; 11. Human rights & dementia: a ‘socratic dialogue’; 12. Experts by experience: "I don’t want to be shaken, I want to be a shaker"; Conclusion: multi-disciplinary, multi-historied, multi-critical