Lawrence Cohen
University of California, Berkeley
24 Papers
165 Citations
Lawrence Cohen is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Modernity. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 24 publications. Previous affiliations of Lawrence Cohen include Harvard University & University of California.
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Papers
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No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
Lawrence Cohen
- 30 Jul 1998
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world is presented.
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Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility
Annette Leibing,Lawrence Cohen +1 more
- 15 Feb 2006
TL;DR: This paper explored the historical, psychological, and philosophical implications of dementia based on a cross-cultural perspective and focus on questions of age, mind, voice, self, self-loss, temporality, memory, and affect.
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Old Age: Cultural and Critical Perspectives
TL;DR: Agarwal et al. as mentioned in this paper made the classic observation that "if one is to judge from typical anthropological accounts, the span of years between the achievement of adult status and one's funerary rites is either an ethnographic vacuum or a vast monotonous plateau of invariable behavior" (13).
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No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
Sarah E Lamb,Lawrence Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things by Lawrence Cohen as discussed by the authors is a powerful, provocative book, rich with meaning, which explores how people comprehend the body and its behavior in time.
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