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Auguste D — one hundred years on: 'the person' not 'the case'
Author(s)	Sean Page, Tracey Fletcher
Journal title	Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 5, no 4, November 2006
Pages	pp 571-583
Source	http://www.dem.sagepub.com
Keywords	Dementia ; Personality ; Biographies ; Histories.
Annotation	Auguste D is regarded as the being the first case described by Alois Alzheimer to highlight the disease that would later be named after him. Auguste is described in terms of her illness, of her disturbances, and ultimately of her neuropathology. In the past 100 years since her death in 1906, there has been almost no attempt to consider her as a person or as a fellow human being outside the context of her illness. This article takes a social research approach to place those things we know about the person Auguste, and places them in an appropriate social context for a working class woman in imperial Germany at the close of the 19th century. By doing so, her status is raised beyond that of a pitiful victim of disease, and we begin to appreciate her lived experience before the onset of dementia. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-061213218 A
Classmark	EA: DK: 67: 6A
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