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Mediating Alzheimer's : Cognition and Personhood by Scott Selberg (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN-101517902290
ISBN-139781517902292
eBay Product ID (ePID)2328318508
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMediating Alzheimer's : Cognition and Personhood
SubjectDance / History & Criticism, Internal Medicine, History, Disease & Health Issues
Publication Year2022
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science, Medical
AuthorScott Selberg
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2021-062863
Reviews"Important and timely, Mediating Alzheimer's is an ethical commitment to understanding Alzheimer's framing that stands apart from other works in the field. Scott Selberg has harnessed his expertise in communication, media, and visual culture to make it clear that Alzheimer's may be better understood by an extended analysis of what representation, visual, and media forms mean and do in shaping knowledge about and experience with Alzheimer's."--Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San Diego " Mediating Alzheimer's is an important work, articulating a social analysis of one of the most feared diseases in modern times, and its scope is extensive, contributing to disability studies, communication studies, medical sociology, medical history, technology studies, and gerontology."-- H-Net Reviews
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal616.8311
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Alzheimer's and Media 1. Origin Myths: History, Histology, and Representational Value 2. New Media Pioneers: Neuroimaging a National Crisis 3. Use It or Lose It: Affirming the Self, Defining the Person 4. PET Scans and Polaroids: Anachronizing Personhood 5. Dementia in the Museum: Modern Art as Public Care 6. Dementia on the Canvas: Art, Therapy, and Creativity's Values 7. Loved Ones: The Capacity for Representation, Recognition, and Care Epilogue: "How to Not Forget" Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisAn exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer's disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer's disease is a true medical mystery. In Mediating Alzheimer's , Scott Selberg examines the nature of this enduring national health crisis by looking at the disease's relationship to media and representation. He shows how collective investments in different kinds of media have historically shaped how we understand, treat, and live with this disease. Selberg demonstrates how the cognitive abilities that Alzheimer's threatens--memory, for example--are integrated into the operations of representational technologies, from Polaroid photographs to Post-its to digital artificial intelligence. Focusing on a wide variety of media technologies, such as neuroimaging, art therapy, virtual reality, and social media, he shows how these cognitively oriented media ultimately help define personhood for people with Alzheimer's. Media have changed the practices of successful aging in the United States, and Selberg takes us deep into how technologies like digital brain-training and online care networks shape ideas of cognition and healthy aging. Packed with startlingly fresh insights, Mediating Alzheimer's contributes to debates around bioethics, the labor of caregiving, and a national economy increasingly invested in communication and digital media. Probing the very technologies that promise to save and understand our brains, it gives us new ways of understanding Alzheimer's disease and aging in America.
LC Classification NumberRC523.S45 2022
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