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5.0 out of 5 stars
Follows its impact from the 19th to the late 20th century,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History (Hardcover)
Senility isn't just an issue of the last twenty years, but has long haunted the image of the self-made man. Historian Jesse Ballenger follows its impact from the 19th to the late 20th century, when Alzheimer's became associated with the loss of self. What makes his survey intriguing is his focus on changing American society and culture which fostered the idea of selfhood as a status, and later on as a willful construction. Both science and history blend in a survey of aging and dementia, making for a broad discussion not just of changing American attitudes and culture, but changing health system responses.
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Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America: A History by Jesse F. Ballenger (Hardcover - February 13, 2006)
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