Narrating Identity Through Radical Memory Loss: Dilemmas in Oral History.
- Resource Type
- Conference Paper
- Authors
- Lazzaro, Althea Eannace
- Source
- Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2005 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, p1-15, 15p
- Subject
- MEMORY disorders
DEMENTIA
ALZHEIMER'S disease
PERSONALITY disorders
COGNITION disorders
NEUROBEHAVIORAL disorders
- Language
This article cites a research study focusing on the narration of identity through radical memory loss. There is no significant body of literature that combines psychological and physiological understandings of disease and memory loss with theoretical and cultural understanding of narrative, memory and identity. In this work the author has addressed dementia as a broad category of memory degradation but he is working specifically with a subject who has been tentatively diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, a very common form of dementia.