Preventing dementia? : critical perspectives on a new paradigm of preparing for old age / edited by Annettee Leibing and Silke Schicktanz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leibing, Annette, editor.

Schicktanz, Silke, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Herbert Grossinger and Maury Betchen Memorial Fund for Neurodegenerative Disease Research.

Series:

Life course, culture and aging ; v. 7.

Life course, culture and aging : global transformations ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dementia.

Dementia--Prevention.

Dementia--prevention & control.

Medical Subjects:

Dementia.

Dementia--prevention & control.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 260 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herbert Grossinger and Maury Betchen Memorial Fund for Neurodegenerative Disease Research.

Other Format:

Print version: Preventing dementia?

ISBN:

9781789209105

1789209102

Publisher Number:

99985465233

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.