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The medicalization of dementia
Author(s)John Bond
Journal titleJournal of Aging Studies, vol 6, no 4, Winter 1992
Pagespp 397-403
KeywordsDementia ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Medicine.
AnnotationThis article looks at the social construction of dementia, and the contribution of medicine to this. Concludes that by challenging the biomedical model of dementia, society will help generate new social relations between people with dementia, and their fellow human beings.
Accession NumberCPA-931101031 A
ClassmarkEA: TOB: Y7M

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