Reflections on Selfhood and Embodiment
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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST FRIGHTENING CONDITION that faces the aging population in the twenty-first century, a much-feared stigmatizing label that carries with it a sentence of social death. The lay media are replete with descriptions of Alzheimer’s such as a “living death,” “unbecoming” a self, and a “drifting towards the threshold of unbeing.” Even the US federal government’s Advisory Panel on Alzheimer’s Disease describes the person with the illness as one whose mind has been dissolved, leaving only a body from which the per-
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