Critical Dementia Studies: An Introduction (Dementia in Critical Dialogue)

Synopsis

This book puts the critical into dementia studies. It makes a timely and novel contribution to the field, offering a provocative and thought-provoking critique of current thinking and debate on dementia. Collectively the contributions gathered together in this text make a powerful case for a more politically engaged, deconstructive and critical treatment of dementia and the systems and structures that currently govern and frame it. The book is interdisciplinary and draws together leading dementia scholars alongside dementia activists from around the world. It frames dementia as first and foremost a political category. The book advances both theoretical and methodological thinking in the field as well as sharing learning from empirical research. Outlining the limits to existing efforts to frame and theorise the condition it proposes a new critical movement for the field of dementia studies and practice. The book will be of direct interest to researchers and scholars in the field of dementia studies and wider fields of health, disability and care. It will provide a novel resource for students and practitioners in the fields of dementia, health care and social care. The book also has implications for dementia policymaking, commissioning and community development.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000864908

Related ISBNs:

9781032118802, 9781032118833, 9781003221982

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/21/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Richard Ward and Linn J. Sandberg

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Richard Ward

Edited by:

Linn J. Sandberg