The biopolitics of dementia : a neurocritical perspective
Fletcher, James Rupert
The biopolitics of dementia : a neurocritical perspective / James Rupert Fletcher - 1 online resource (256 pages) - Dementia in critical dialogue .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
9781003398523
Dementia
616.831
The biopolitics of dementia : a neurocritical perspective / James Rupert Fletcher - 1 online resource (256 pages) - Dementia in critical dialogue .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
9781003398523
Dementia
616.831