Preventing Dementia?

...a fascinating anthology...an intriguing edited volume that will interest, first of all, social scientists studying health issues but also policymakers, health experts, social workers, nongovernmental organizations caring for people with dementia, and the media. * Anthropology & Aging [This volume] collects critical and insightful positions on the new paradigm of dementia prevention from an interdisciplinary and international perspective...[It] initiates a debate about the often implicit unresolved social, ethical, and political implications and preconditions of the medical understanding and handling of cognitive disorders. * Monash Bioethics Review By showing the interweaving of medical dementia prevention with epistemic, social, historical, cultural and economic factors, the individual contributions open up important impulses for dealing with the 'new dementia', which is still urgently needed. The volume is therefore of great interest not only for experts in medical practice, but also for medical ethics, history and sociology. * Ethik in der Medizin In provoking [critical] questions, this collection provides a highly informative but also political take on the changing face of dementia prevention internationally. This will be illuminating to social science and bioethics scholars, as well as policymakers and public health practitioners engaged in dementia prevention, chronic illness, and ageing throughout the life course. * Sociology of Health & Fitness Preventing Dementia offers timely critical insight into this 'new dementia' - a predictable and preventable midlife disease process. All academics in dementia studies will benefit from this book, and while background knowledge is required to get the most out of it, there is also considerable fodder for scholars across the medical social sciences, that is the reconceptualisation of ageing and the limits of responsibilisation. * Dementia Because of its innovative approach and timeliness, the book will not only be of interest to social, ethical and public health researchers working on dementia (at all career stages) but will also be a contribution to wider debates about neoliberalism, risk, governmentality and social capital. Some of the chapters are of direct and urgent relevance to policymakers. * Somatosphere.net These are excellent contributions by some of the most important critical scholars working in areas of age studies, neuroculture and health promotion. It is interdisciplinary and international in scope, and the editors have done an excellent job in producing a well-organized, well-framed and coherent volume. * Barbara L. Marshall, Trent University This is an excellent edited volume on dementia prevention... There are three parts: discursive and social practices of dementia prevention; from prediction to prevention; and normative claims of prevention. The individual chapters are of equal quality and the overall framing by the editors is compelling. * Stefan Ecks, University of Edinburgh