"The painterly hand": Embodied consciousness and Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Aging Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-170

  Kontos, Pia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agency; Embodiment; Selfhood

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEMENTIA; GERONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; PAINTING; PERSONHOOD; PHENOMENOLOGY; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMBOLISM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0037403286     PISSN: 08904065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-4065(03)00006-9     Document Type: Article

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