Preventing dementia? critical perspectives on a new paradigm of preparing for old age
"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. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to sc...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York ; Oxford, England :
Berghahn
[2021]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Life course, culture and aging
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645715006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES
- INTRODUCTION Reflections on the “New Dementia”
- PART I The Discursive and Social Practices of Dementia Prevention
- 1 A WINDOW TO ACT? Revisiting the Conceptual Foundations of Alzheimer’s Disease in Dementia Prevention
- 2 THE VASCULARIZATION OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE Prevention in “Glocal” Geriatric Care
- 3 IF DEMENTIA PREVENTION IS THE ANSWER, WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? Observations from the German Alzheimer’s Disease Debate
- 4 DEMENTIA PREVENTION Another Expansion of the Preventive Horizon
- 5 MIND’S FRAILTY Elements of a “Geriatric Logic” in the Clinical Discourse about Dementia Prevention
- PART II From the Prediction and Early Detection to the Prevention of Dementia
- 6 REVISITING MCI On Classificatory Drift
- 7 THE PREVENTIVE UNCERTAINTY OF MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT (MCI) The Experts, the Market, and the Subjects of Diagnosis
- PART III Conceptual Premises and Normative Claims of Prevention
- 8 STAGING PREVENTION, ARRESTING PROGRESS Chronic Disease Prevention and the Lifestyle Frame
- 9 RESPONSIBILIZATION OF AGING? An Ethical Analysis of the Moral Economy of Prevention
- 10 GOVERNING THROUGH PREVENTION Lifestyle and the Health Field Concept
- AFTERWORD Looking Forward
- INDEX
