The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind Dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the Long Twentieth Century

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by The Wellcome Trust. The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific an...

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Main Author: Zimmermann, Martina (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2020
Series:Explorations in Science and Literature
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