Dear Tipsters, Interested readers might also like to consult "Scar Tissue" by Michael Ignatieff, which is a novel based on his experience with his mother's battle with Alzheimer's disease. I found the account to be riveting. Here are two quotations from reviews: >From Publishers Weekly
"Haunted by the genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's in his mother's family, the narrator describes each harrowing stage of her illness, meanwhile speculating about the loss of selfhood when language and memory are obliterated." >From Library Journal "In this fictionalized account of a mother's death from Alzheimer's disease told from the perspective of a son, Ignatieff (Asya, LJ 9/15/91) examines the relationships between life, consciousness, disease, and death." For Canadian Tipsters, please note that this is not an implied endorsement for Michael's candidature for the leadership Liberal Party of Canada. Sincerely, Stuart ___________________________________________________________________ Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: (819)822-9600, Extension 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: (819)822-9660 Bishop's University, 2600 College Street, Sherbrooke (Lennoxville), Québec J1M 0C8, Canada. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy ___________________________________________________________ ________________________________ From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 10/24/2006 9:52 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Self-Portraits Chronicle a Descent Into Alzheimer's - New York Times An interesting set of portraits, made over four decades, by a man whose mind was slowly being overtaken by Alzheimer's disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/health/24alzh.html?ref=science Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo ============================= --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english <http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0<=english>
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