Ethics of Sex and Alzheimer's

Name: Ethics of Sex and Alzheimer's
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ISBN: 9780415641654

ISBN-10: 0415641659

ISBN-13: 9780415641654

Edition: 2014

Authors: John Portmann

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A growing epidemic, Alzheimer’s punishes not only its victims but also those married to them. This book analyzes how Alzheimer’s is quietly transforming the way we think about love today. Without meaning to become rebels, many people who find themselves "married to Alzheimer’s" deflate the predominant notion of a conventional marriage. By falling in love again before their ill spouse dies, those married to Alzheimer’s come into conflict with central values of Western civilization – personal, sexual, familial, religious, and political. Those who wait sadly for a spouse’s death must sometimes wonder if the show of fidelity is necessary and whom it helps. Most books on Alzheimer’s focus on…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 6/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

John Portmann is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, USA.