Entangled matters-alzheimer's, interiority, and the 'unflattening' of the world

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-193

  Leibing, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's; Dualism; Interiority; Mattering; Psyche soul personhood

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; FRANCE; HISTORY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERSONHOOD; PHARMACOGENETICS; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AWARENESS; BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY; CULTURE; ETHICS; FRANCE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONHOOD; PHARMACOGENETICS; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 43449100317     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-008-9091-5     Document Type: Article

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