James Rupert Fletcher

Broschiertes Buch

The Biopolitics of Dementia

A Neurocritical Perspective

Beschreibung

This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia's growing public profile and corresponding research economy.

Autor

James Rupert Fletcher is Wellcome Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. His research covers several areas of the dementia economy, with an emphasis on using social theory and methods to understand dementia as a political entity. He has published on subjects including informal dementia care networks, mental capacity legislation and its influence on research governance, the anti-ageing technoscience market, anti-stigma and awareness-raising campaigns regarding psychiatric disorder, the operationalisation of ethnicity and age in research, the biomarker discovery economy, the curation of dementia-friendly cultural events, dementia prevention public health strategies and environmental effects on cognition in urban settings. His lecturing spans medical sociology, the sociology of ageing, social research methods and ethical governance

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781032504483
• ISBN-10: 103250448X
• Artikelnr.: 73143239