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  Toward an anthropology of senility: Anger, weakness, and Alzheimer's in Banaras, India

  Fieldwork with old persons and their families in four neighborhoods of Banaras, India, stratified by class, is presented to suggest the need of an anthropology of senility.
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  Struggling over subjectivity: Debates about the "self" and Alzheimer disease

  A "loss of self" is implicit in the current Alzheimer's construct, and it has been argued that, consequently, the subjective experience of being and becoming old has become increasingly distressing.