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Chapter 18. Narrative Ethics and Ethical Narratives in Dementia

  1. Alistair Burns2,
  2. Bengt Winblad3
  1. Clive Baldwin

Published Online: 19 SEP 2006

DOI: 10.1002/0470010568.ch18

Severe Dementia

Severe Dementia

How to Cite

Baldwin, C. (2006) Narrative Ethics and Ethical Narratives in Dementia, in Severe Dementia (eds A. Burns and B. Winblad), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/0470010568.ch18

Editor Information

  1. 2

    Department of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Manchester, Education and Research Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester M23 9Lt, UK

  2. 3

    Division of Geriatric Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Neurotec B 84, Karolinska University Hospital, SE-14186 Stockholm, Sweden

Author Information

  1. Bradford Dementia Group, School for Health Studies, Unity Building, University of Bradford, Bradford BD5 0BB, UK

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 19 SEP 2006
  2. Published Print: 21 APR 2006

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9780470010549

Online ISBN: 9780470010563

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Keywords:

  • narrative ethics and ethical narratives;
  • severe dementia and compromising in narrative enterprise;
  • narrative approach to palliative care;
  • involving people with limited language in narrative enterprise;
  • small stories narrative in dementia care

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Prelude

  • Introduction

  • Narrative and the Self

  • Severe dementia and the compromising of the narrative enterprise

  • A narrative approach to palliative care

  • Narrative ethics

  • Ethical narratives

  • Concluding remarks

  • Notes

  • References