The Biopolitics of Dementia: A Neurocritical Perspective

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