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...

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Published in:	Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 103 - 120
Main Authors:	Gjødsbøl, Iben M., Svendsen, Mette N.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Mar2018
Subjects:	Recognition (Psychology) Cognitive ability Dementia Diagnostic examinations Memory testing
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost