Recognizing Dementia: Constructing Deconstruction in a Danish Memory Clinic.
This article investigates how a person with dementia is made up through intersubjective acts of recognition. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish memory clinic, we show that identification of disease requires patients to be substituted by their relatives in constructing believable medical nar...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 103 - 120 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2018
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