Dementia Discourse: From Imposed Suffering to Knowing Other-Wise
The authors revisit the troubling discourse surrounding the diagnosis of dementia. A critique of the predominant words and images in health care literature, public discourse, and policy is considered from multiple angles. The authors link the dominant words and images with a form of inter-relationa...
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oai:doaj.org-article:a9442d6cc092485eb4f54174c48245bf2021-11-25T21:26:02ZDementia Discourse: From Imposed Suffering to Knowing Other-Wise10.11575/jah.v0i2.532201927-4416https://doaj.org/article/a9442d6cc092485eb4f54174c48245bf2013-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jah/article/view/53220https://doaj.org/toc/1927-4416 The authors revisit the troubling discourse surrounding the diagnosis of dementia. A critique of the predominant words and images in health care literature, public discourse, and policy is considered from multiple angles. The authors link the dominant words and images with a form of inter-relational violence. Contrary images grounded in research and experience offer a different view of what it is like to live with a diagnosis of dementia—a view that is life-affirming and based in relationality and possibility. Concepts of embodied selfhood and knowing other-wise are portrayed as doorways to transforming a discourse of violence toward a discourse of compassion and ethical relating. Gail Joyce MitchellSherry L DupuisPia KontosUniversity of CalgaryarticleDementia DiscourseSufferingEmbodied SelfhoodKnowing Other-WiseHermeneuticsPhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENJournal of Applied Hermeneutics, Iss 2 (2013) |
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The authors revisit the troubling discourse surrounding the diagnosis of dementia. A critique of the predominant words and images in health care literature, public discourse, and policy is considered from multiple angles. The authors link the dominant words and images with a form of inter-relational violence. Contrary images grounded in research and experience offer a different view of what it is like to live with a diagnosis of dementia—a view that is life-affirming and based in relationality and possibility. Concepts of embodied selfhood and knowing other-wise are portrayed as doorways to transforming a discourse of violence toward a discourse of compassion and ethical relating.
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Dementia Discourse: From Imposed Suffering to Knowing Other-Wise |
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