Bibliograph

On vanishing, mortality, dementia, and what it means to disappear, Lynn Casteel Harper

Type

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On vanishing, mortality, dementia, and what it means to disappear, Lynn Casteel Harper

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

On vanishing

Oclc number

1153405825

Responsibility statement

Lynn Casteel Harper

Sub title

mortality, dementia, and what it means to disappear

Summary

An estimated fifty million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer's erase parts of one's memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don't simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as vanishing in plain sight, fading away, or enduring a long goodbye. In On Vanishing, Lynn Casteel Harper, a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, investigates the myths and metaphors surrounding dementia and aging, addressing not only the indignities caused by the condition but also by the rhetoric surrounding it

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- On vanishing -- Oh, Mexico -- Turning to fools and madmen -- The golden hour -- A great many seemings here -- She recognizes you -- When I have dementia -- Vanitas still life

Target audience

adult

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