Forgetting Whose We Are: Theological Reflections on Personhood, Faith and Dementia
Because our culture so values rationality and productivity, observers easily characterize the life of the person with dementia in the bleakest terms because it lacks sociocultural worth. The experience of the person with irreversible and progressive dementia is clearly tragic, but it need not be int...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge
2007
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Journal of religion, disability & health
Jahr: 2007, Band: 11, Heft: 1, Seiten: 37-63 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Theology
B Memory B Bonhoeffer B Faith B Alzheimer's B Dementia B Personhood |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Because our culture so values rationality and productivity, observers easily characterize the life of the person with dementia in the bleakest terms because it lacks sociocultural worth. The experience of the person with irreversible and progressive dementia is clearly tragic, but it need not be interpreted as half empty rather than half full. |
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| ISSN: | 1522-9122 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, disability & health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1300/J095v11n01_04 |