The Biopolitics of Dementia : : A Neurocritical Perspective / / James Rupert Fletcher.
"This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia's growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Abingdon, Oxon, England : : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited),, 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dementia in critical dialogue ;
volume 3 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Successful Failure of Dementia Research
- Studying Dementia : Post-1970s Divergences in Dementia Studies and the Alzheimer's Movement
- Anti-(bio)medical; Neuro-agnostic : Why Dementia Studies Needs Neurocritical Responses to the Biopolitics of Dementia
- Deconstructing Biopolitical Commitments : A Neurocritical Analysis of Biogenic Disease, Normal Ageing and Promissory Futures
- Making Dementia Curable : Circling Cognition, Biomarkers and Meaningfulness
- Destigmatising Normality : How the Awareness Economy Misconstrues and Perpetuates Stigma
- Moralising Ethnicity : Governance Through the Racialisation of Outcomes
- The Political Economy of Dementia : Post-2008 Financialisation, Awareness-as-Welfare and Speculative Demographic Alarmism
- Conclusion : Promissory Sociopolitical Histories.