The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying |
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| Author:
| Post, Stephen G. |
| Series title: | Gerontology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6410-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2000 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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Society today, writes Stephen Post, is ''hypercognitive'': it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, which over an extended period incrementally rob patients of exactly those functions, raise many dilemmas. How are we to view--and value--persons deprived of what ......
Society today, writes Stephen Post, is ''hypercognitive'': it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, which over an extended period incrementally rob patients of exactly those functions, raise many dilemmas. How are we to view--and value--persons deprived of what ......