ISBN:
978-1-78920-910-5
,
978-1-78920-910-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 260 Seiten)
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations volume 7
Keywords:
Alter Krankheit
;
Heilbehandlung
;
Gesundheitswesen
;
Anthropologie, medizinische
Abstract:
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 scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers` prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures -- Introduction: Reflections on the "New Dementia" / 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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