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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biomedical Research on Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostics: Background and Trends
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Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease: Current Practices
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Alzheimer’s Disease: Multiple Realities and Concerns
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About this book
The initial chapters in this edited volume provide an overview and a critical discussion of recent developments in biomedical research on Alzheimer's disease. Subsequent contributions explore the values at stake in current practices of dealing with Alzheimer's disease and dementia, both within and outside the biomedical domain. Novel diagnostic technologies for Alzheimer's disease emerge in a complex and shifting field, full of controversies. Innovating with care requires a precise mapping of how concepts, values and responsibilities are filled in through the confrontation of practices. In doing so, the volumeoffers a practice-based approach of responsible innovation that is also applicable to other fields of innovation.
Reviews
“This seamless set of engaging and thoughtful essays examines how and why we’ve arrived at a multi-national and multi-million dollar effort to remake Alzheimer’s disease using biomarkers, events that are part of a larger story of biomedicine’s effort to become a “precision medicine” that will categorize, explain and take care of not only the problem of older adults with cognitive impairments but the chronic diseases of aging. Readers will discover how Alzheimer’s disease, a disease we say is so common and costly, remains so elusive to measurement, coherent public policy and dignified care.” (Jason Karlawish, Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
“This remarkable volume about technological innovation in the Alzheimer world should be read by all involved physicians, researchers, patients and their families, and the public at large. In fourteen even-handed, thought-provoking chapters that create a sum greater than their parts, the perceived consequences of a shift to an early diagnosis of AD through biomarker detection are discussed in depth. Readers learn that AD is a poorly delineated phenomenon -- a multi-form syndrome in which disjunctions between assumed pathology and clinical manifestations are common. Nevertheless, “responsible innovation” can be achieved.” (Margaret Lock PhD, The Alzheimer’s Conundrum, Princeton University Press)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Harro van Lente is Full Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He was trained in physics and philosophy and he studies the dynamics of emerging technologies. He has published widely on the sociology of expectations, technology assessment, foresight, sustainability and the politics of knowledge production.
Ellen Moors is Full Professor of Sustainable Innovation at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on technology dynamics and governance of lifesciences innovations, the role of users and institutions in emerging technologies, and sustainable or responsible health innovation business models.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease
Book Subtitle: Innovating with Care
Editors: Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente, Ellen Moors
Series Title: Health, Technology and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54097-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54096-6Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54097-3Published: 13 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-3386
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 286
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Sociology, Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Geriatric Care