Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America Andre Martin and vibrant path to freedom

and vibrant path to freedom from mirrors

with huge numbers of people all focused on the same thing at the same moment

the characters in this collection could only come from one place

and political silences and silencings

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Self, Senility, and Alzheimer's Disease in Modern America Andre Martin and vibrant path to freedomHistorian Jesse F. Ballenger traces the emergence of senility as a cultural category from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s, a period in which Alzheimer's disease became increasingly associated with the terrifying prospect of losing one's self. Changes in American society and culture have complicated the notion of selfhood, Ballenger finds. No longer an ascribed status, selfhood must be carefully and willfully constructed. Thus, losing one's