Preventing dementia? : critical perspectives on a new paradigm of preparing for old age /: critical perspectives on a new paradigm of preparing for old age. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Annettee Leibing, Silke Schicktanz.
• Editors: Leibing, Annette; Schicktanz, Silke
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.831; Dementia; Dementia -- Prevention
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789209105
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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