The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferersà â â prognosis.
The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferersà â â prognosis.
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Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
Annette Leibing is a medical anthropologist and Full Professor at Université de Montréal. Her research focuses mostly on issues related to aging, by studying - as an anthropologist - Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in different contexts, aging and psychiatry, pharmaceuticals, elder care and, stem cells for the body in decline, among others.
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Download PDF of Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction Annette Leibing and Silke Schicktanz Part I: The Discursive and Social Practices of Dementia Prevention Chapter 1. A Window to Act? Revisiting the Conceptual Foundations of Alzheimer's Disease in Dementia Prevention Lara Keuck Chapter 2. The Vascularization of Alzheimer's Disease - Prevention in 'Glocal' Geriatric Care Annette Leibing Chapter 3. If Dementia Prevention is the Answer - What was the Question? Observations from the German Alzheimer's Disease Debate Silke Schicktanz Chapter 4. Dementia Prevention: Another Expansion of the Preventive Horizon Matthias Leanza Chapter 5. Mind's Frailty: Elements of a Geriatric Logic in the Clinical Discourse about Dementia Prevention Alessandro Blasimme Part II: From the Prediction and Early Detection to the Prevention of Dementia Chapter 6. Revisiting MCI: On Classificatory Drift Tiago Moreira Chapter 7. The Preventive Uncertainty of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): The Experts, the Market and the Subjects of Diagnosis Stephen Katz, Kevin R. Peters and Peri J. Ballantyne Part III: Conceptual Premises and Normative Claims of Prevention Chapter 8. Staging Prevention, Arresting Progress: Chronic Disease Prevention and the Lifestyle Frame Kirsten Bell Chapter 9. Responsibilization of Aging? An Ethical Analysis of the Moral Economy of Prevention Mark Schweda and Larissa Pfaller Chapter 10. Governing Through Prevention - Lifestyle and the Health Field Concept Thomas Foth Afterword: Looking Forward Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel R. George Index
Download PDF of Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction Annette Leibing and Silke Schicktanz Part I: The Discursive and Social Practices of Dementia Prevention Chapter 1. A Window to Act? Revisiting the Conceptual Foundations of Alzheimer's Disease in Dementia Prevention Lara Keuck Chapter 2. The Vascularization of Alzheimer's Disease - Prevention in 'Glocal' Geriatric Care Annette Leibing Chapter 3. If Dementia Prevention is the Answer - What was the Question? Observations from the German Alzheimer's Disease Debate Silke Schicktanz Chapter 4. Dementia Prevention: Another Expansion of the Preventive Horizon Matthias Leanza Chapter 5. Mind's Frailty: Elements of a Geriatric Logic in the Clinical Discourse about Dementia Prevention Alessandro Blasimme Part II: From the Prediction and Early Detection to the Prevention of Dementia Chapter 6. Revisiting MCI: On Classificatory Drift Tiago Moreira Chapter 7. The Preventive Uncertainty of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): The Experts, the Market and the Subjects of Diagnosis Stephen Katz, Kevin R. Peters and Peri J. Ballantyne Part III: Conceptual Premises and Normative Claims of Prevention Chapter 8. Staging Prevention, Arresting Progress: Chronic Disease Prevention and the Lifestyle Frame Kirsten Bell Chapter 9. Responsibilization of Aging? An Ethical Analysis of the Moral Economy of Prevention Mark Schweda and Larissa Pfaller Chapter 10. Governing Through Prevention - Lifestyle and the Health Field Concept Thomas Foth Afterword: Looking Forward Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel R. George Index
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