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Emerging technologies for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease : innovating with care / Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente, Ellen Moors, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Health, technology, and society
- Health, technology and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alzheimer's disease--Diagnosis.
- Alzheimer's disease.
- Alzheimer Disease--diagnosis.
- Medical Subjects:
- Alzheimer Disease--diagnosis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Contents:
- Series Editors' Introduction; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; 1: Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: Innovating with Care; The Desirability of Biomarker Diagnostics of Alzheimer's Disease; Responsible Innovation; Innovating with Care; Chapter Outline; References; Part I: Biomedical Research on Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostics: Background and Trends; 2: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer's: Are We Being (Ir)responsible?; History of Diagnosis and Treatment.
- Current State of the Alzheimer's Field Crafting an Innovative But Responsible Future; Early or Timely Diagnosis; Finding the Cure or Even an Effective Therapy; A Case Study of 'Irresponsibility'; Towards a More Responsible Future; New Approaches; References; 3: On Short Cuts: The Complexity of Studying the Early Diagnosis and Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease; Two Decades, One Question; Around 1993; Around 2013; Even Milder Than Mild Cognitive Impairment: Prevention and Prediction; Simplifications and Short Cuts: On Studying Early Dementia; References.
- 4: Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease: Searching for the Missing Link Between Biology and Clinic Biomarkers: Connecting Biology and Clinic; AD Biomarker Research: Development and Clinical Drivers; AD Biomarker Research in Practice: The LeARN Project; Choosing Candidate Markers and Technological Platforms; Choosing Outcome Measures; Choices Related to Patient Inclusion and Follow-Up; Conclusion; References; 5: Care and Responsibility in Building Futures for Alzheimer's Disease Research; Cohort Studies; The Sociality of Cohorts; The MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study.
- Mediating the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study Meeting the Cohort; Care and Responsibility; References; Part II: Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: Current Practices; 6: Grey Matters: Emergent Biomarkers and Good Alzheimer's Diagnostics; Background and Methods; Current Practices of AD-Diagnostics in the Netherlands: A Heterogeneous Field; Good AD-Diagnostics: Differences; The Good Diagnosis: Five Diagnostic Values; Modes of Diagnosing: 'Pulling Out All the Stops' or 'Holding Back'; Distributing Differences; Distribution by Taxonomic Considerations.
- Distribution by Patients' Preferences Revisiting Current Practices of AD-Diagnostics: From Good to Better?; Value-Laden Taxonomies and Taxonomy-Laden Preferences; Improving Practices of AD-Diagnostics; To Conclude: Emergent Biomarker Tools for AD; References; 7: Understanding Cognitive Screening Tools: Navigating Uncertainty in Everyday Clinical Practice; Methods; Clinician-Patient Interaction: Making of Provisionality; National Dementia CQUIN and Early Diagnosis: Constraining 'Care Work'; Discussion; References.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 3, 2016).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gail and Warren Lieberfarb Mental Health and Neuroscience Library Resources Fund.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9781137540973
- 1137540974
- Publisher Number:
- 99969737196
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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