The Biopolitics of Dementia : : A Neurocritical Perspective.

• Superior document: Dementia in Critical Dialogue Series
• Author: Fletcher, James Rupert.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; Ã2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Dementia in Critical Dialogue Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Successful Failure of Dementia Research -- Chapter 2 Studying Dementia: Post-1970s Divergences in Dementia Studies and the Alzheimer's Movement -- Chapter 3 Anti-(bio)medical -- Neuro-agnostic: Why Dementia Studies Needs Neurocritical Responses to the Biopolitics of Dementia -- Chapter 4 Deconstructing Biopolitical Commitments: A Neurocritical Analysis of Biogenic Disease, Normal Ageing and Promissory Futures -- Chapter 5 Making Dementia Curable: Circling Cognition, Biomarkers and Meaningfulness -- Chapter 6 Destigmatising Normality: How the Awareness Economy Misconstrues and Perpetuates Stigma -- Chapter 7 Moralising Ethnicity: Governance through the Racialisation of Outcomes -- Chapter 8 The Political Economy of Dementia: Post-2008 Financialisation, Awareness-as-Welfare and Speculative Demographic Alarmism -- Chapter 9 Conclusion: Promissory Sociopolitical Histories -- Index.