Description: Further DetailsTitle: Mediating Alzheimer'sCondition: NewSubtitle: Cognition and PersonhoodISBN-10: 1517902290EAN: 9781517902292ISBN: 9781517902292Publisher: University of Minnesota PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/24/2022Description: An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer’s disease is a true medical mystery. In Mediating Alzheimer’s, Scott Selberg examines the nature of this enduring national health crisis by looking at the disease’s relationship to media and representation. He shows how collective investments in different kinds of media have historically shaped how we understand, treat, and live with this disease. Selberg demonstrates how the cognitive abilities that Alzheimer’s threatens—memory, for example—are integrated into the operations of representational technologies, from Polaroid photographs to Post-its to digital artificial intelligence. Focusing on a wide variety of media technologies, such as neuroimaging, art therapy, virtual reality, and social media, he shows how these cognitively oriented media ultimately help define personhood for people with Alzheimer’s. Media have changed the practices of successful aging in the United States, and Selberg takes us deep into how technologies like digital brain-training and online care networks shape ideas of cognition and healthy aging. Packed with startlingly fresh insights, Mediating Alzheimer’s contributes to debates around bioethics, the labor of caregiving, and a national economy increasingly invested in communication and digital media. Probing the very technologies that promise to save and understand our brains, it gives us new ways of understanding Alzheimer’s disease and aging in America.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 51mmAuthor: Scott SelbergGenre: MedicineTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Music Dance & TheatreRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Mediating Alzheimer's
Title: Mediating Alzheimer's
Subtitle: Cognition and Personhood
ISBN-10: 1517902290
EAN: 9781517902292
ISBN: 9781517902292
Release Date: 05/24/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Medicine
Topic: Music Dance & Theatre
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Mediating Alzheimer's : Cognition and Personhood
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Dance / History & Criticism, Internal Medicine, History, Disease & Health Issues
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science, Medical
Author: Scott Selberg
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
