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Preventing Dementia? Annette Leibing

Preventing Dementia? By Annette Leibing

Preventing Dementia? by Annette Leibing


Summary

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. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers' prognosis.

Preventing Dementia? Summary

Preventing Dementia?: Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age by Annette Leibing

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.

Preventing Dementia? Reviews

The text is extremely well referenced throughout...The compendium on the current status of dementia prevention thinking is suitable for advanced readers...Recommended. * Choice

Preventing Dementia? adds a much-needed perspective to the narrative coming from the plethora of books on dementia prevention that currently line the shelves of our libraries. It takes a deep dive into the history and politics that have prolonged the human suffering from a disease that still has no cure (and may never), receives inadequate support for care, and is framed by a culture that may lack the will to prevent it. Preventing Dementia? is a convincing and compelling reply to the current political debate on what constitutes legitimate infrastructure. * Gerontologist

...a fascinating anthology...an intriguing edited volume that will interest, first of all, social scientists studying health issues but also policymakers, health experts, social workers, nongovernmental organizations caring for people with dementia, and the media. * Anthropology & Aging

[This volume] collects critical and insightful positions on the new paradigm of dementia prevention from an interdisciplinary and international perspective...[It] initiates a debate about the often implicit unresolved social, ethical, and political implications and preconditions of the medical understanding and handling of cognitive disorders. * Monash Bioethics Review

By showing the interweaving of medical dementia prevention with epistemic, social, historical, cultural and economic factors, the individual contributions open up important impulses for dealing with the 'new dementia', which is still urgently needed. The volume is therefore of great interest not only for experts in medical practice, but also for medical ethics, history and sociology. * Ethik in der Medizin

In provoking [critical] questions, this collection provides a highly informative but also political take on the changing face of dementia prevention internationally. This will be illuminating to social science and bioethics scholars, as well as policymakers and public health practitioners engaged in dementia prevention, chronic illness, and ageing throughout the life course. * Sociology of Health & Fitness

Preventing Dementia offers timely critical insight into this 'new dementia' - a predictable and preventable midlife disease process. All academics in dementia studies will benefit from this book, and while background knowledge is required to get the most out of it, there is also considerable fodder for scholars across the medical social sciences, that is the reconceptualisation of ageing and the limits of responsibilisation. * Dementia

Because of its innovative approach and timeliness, the book will not only be of interest to social, ethical and public health researchers working on dementia (at all career stages) but will also be a contribution to wider debates about neoliberalism, risk, governmentality and social capital. Some of the chapters are of direct and urgent relevance to policymakers. * Somatosphere.net

These are excellent contributions by some of the most important critical scholars working in areas of age studies, neuroculture and health promotion. It is interdisciplinary and international in scope, and the editors have done an excellent job in producing a well-organized, well-framed and coherent volume. * Barbara L. Marshall, Trent University

This is an excellent edited volume on dementia prevention... the overall framing by the editors is compelling. * Stefan Ecks, University of Edinburgh

About Annette Leibing

Annette Leibing is a medical anthropologist and Full Professor at Universite de Montreal. Her research focuses mostly on issues related to aging, by studying - as an anthropologist - Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in different contexts, aging and psychiatry, pharmaceuticals, elder care and, stem cells for the body in decline, among others.

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

Additional information

NGR9781789209099
9781789209099
1789209099
Preventing Dementia?: Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age by Annette Leibing
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Berghahn Books
2020-10-06
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