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Preventing dementia? : critical perspectives on a new paradigm of preparing for old age /
"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 sc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2020.
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| Edición: | 1st |
| Colección: | Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- <P>List of Figures</p><p><strong>Introduction</strong><br /><em>Annette Leibing and Silke Schicktanz</em></p><p><strong>Part I: The Discursive and Social Practices of Dementia Prevention</strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 1.</strong> A Window to Act? Revisiting the Conceptual Foundations of Alzheimer's Disease in Dementia Prevention<br /><em>Lara Keuck</em></p><p><strong>Chapter 2.</strong> The Vascularization of Alzheimer's Disease
- Prevention in 'Glocal' Geriatric Care<br /><em>Annette Leibing</em></p><p><strong>Chapter 3.</strong> If Dementia Prevention is the Answer
- What was the Question? Observations from the German Alzheimer's Disease Debate<br /><em>Silke Schicktanz</em></p><p><strong>Chapter 4.</strong> Dementia Prevention: Another Expansion of the Preventive Horizon<br /><em>Matthias Leanza</em></p><p><strong>Chapter 5.</strong> Mind's Frailty: Elements of a Geriatric Logic in the Clinical Discourse about Dementia Prevention<br /><em>Alessandro Blasimme</em></p><p><strong>Part II: From the Prediction and Early Detection to the Prevention of Dementia</strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 6.</strong> Revisiting MCI: On Classificatory Drift<br /><em>Tiago Moreira</em></p><p><strong>Chapter 7.</strong> The Preventive Uncertainty of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): The Experts, the Market and the Subjects of Diagnosis<br /><em>Stephen Katz, Kevin R. Peters and Peri J. Ballantyne</em></p><p><strong>Part III: Conceptual Premises and Normative Claims of Prevention</strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 8.</strong> Staging Prevention, Arresting Progress: Chronic Disease Prevention and the Lifestyle Frame<br /><em>Kirsten Bell</em></p><p><strong>Chapter 9.</strong> Responsibilization of Aging? An Ethical Analysis of the Moral Economy of Prevention<br /><em>Mark Schweda and Larissa Pfaller</em></p><p><strong>Chapter 10.</strong> Governing Through Prevention
- Lifestyle and the Health Field Concept<br /><em>Thomas Foth</em></p><p><strong>Afterword:</strong> Looking Forward<br /><em>Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel R. George</em></p><p>Index</p>