Dementia: Listening to our bodies, 72 unique behaviours, multi-dimensional personhood, and the sacramental ministry of touch
Matters of Life and Death
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The Common Narrative Around Dementia
Dementia has replaced cancer as the condition or disease which many people are fearful of and particularly Christians. I think there is quite a strong history of philosophy that links are selves with a kind of sense of like an enemy so you know you've got ready daycarts argument the self is not in the body. And also Christian I'm really interested in a move back towards seeing the body as a something where the self is retained and sustained across a whole lifetime. So it's interesting isn't it if you think about it it's blind and the obvious that philosophers as a breed are a pretty weird breed? It's hardly surprising that the weird kind of people who become philosophers come to the conclusion
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