The biopolitics of dementia : a neurocritical perspective / James Rupert Fletcher

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TextSeries: Dementia in critical dialoguePublisher: Oxon : Routledge, 2024Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:

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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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.