Preventing Dementia?

Annette Leibing is a medical anthropologist and Full Professor at Université de Montréal. Her research focuses mostly on issues related to aging, by studying – as an anthropologist - Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in different contexts, aging and psychiatry, pharmaceuticals, elder care and, stem cells for the body in decline, among others.

List of Figures



Introduction: Reflections on the "New Dementia"

Annette Leibing and Silke Schicktanz



Part I: The Discursive and Social Practices of Dementia Prevention



Chapter 1. A Window to Act? Revisiting the Conceptual Foundations of Alzheimer’s Disease in Dementia Prevention

Lara Keuck



Chapter 2. The Vascularization of Alzheimer’s Disease: Prevention in ‘Glocal’ Geriatric Care

Annette Leibing



Chapter 3. If Dementia Prevention Is the Answer, What Was the Question? Observations from the German Alzheimer’s Disease Debate

Silke Schicktanz



Chapter 4. Dementia Prevention: Another Expansion of the Preventive Horizon

Matthias Leanza



Chapter 5. Mind’s Frailty: Elements of a "Geriatric Logic" in the Clinical Discourse about Dementia Prevention

Alessandro Blasimme



Part II: From the Prediction and Early Detection to the Prevention of Dementia



Chapter 6. Revisiting MCI: On Classificatory Drift

Tiago Moreira



Chapter 7. The Preventive Uncertainty of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): The Experts, the Market and the Subjects of Diagnosis

Stephen Katz, Kevin R. Peters and Peri J. Ballantyne



Part III: Conceptual Premises and Normative Claims of Prevention



Chapter 8. Staging Prevention, Arresting Progress: Chronic Disease Prevention and the Lifestyle Frame

Kirsten Bell



Chapter 9. Responsibilization of Aging? An Ethical Analysis of the Moral Economy of Prevention

Mark Schweda and Larissa Pfaller



Chapter 10. Governing through Prevention: Lifestyle and the Health Field Concept

Thomas Foth



Afterword: Looking Forward

Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel R. George



Index