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This quote from the novelist Jan Carson starts from a recognition that memories are rarely fixed; they are interpreted through different temporal and contextual lenses and thus inevitably morph and change over time. She suggests that lost or misplaced memory can create opportunities for new and creative ways of seeing and being in the world. Carson is challenging a dominant conception of memory: as only cognitive function that is essential to meaningful personhood. This challenge attends to a politics of selfhood that informs both the constructions and experiences of dementia and has been a central theme of this book. This politics is founded upon systems of value and their associations with different characteristics of personhood.

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The Sociology of Dementia Diagnosis and the Constituting of Persons

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    2025年

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  • Alexandra Hillman

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This quote from the novelist Jan Carson starts from a recognition that memories are rarely fixed; they are interpreted through different temporal and contextual lenses and thus inevitably morph and change over time. She suggests that lost or misplaced memory can create opportunities for new and creative ways of seeing and being in the world. Carson is challenging a dominant conception of memory: as only cognitive function that is essential to meaningful personhood. This challenge attends to a politics of selfhood that informs both the constructions and experiences of dementia and has been a central theme of this book. This politics is founded upon systems of value and their associations with different characteristics of personhood.