The Biopolitics of Dementia : A Neurocritical Perspective

This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia's growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from ageing, wid...

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Autor principal: James Rupert Fletcher
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Publicado: Routledge 2024
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