Emerging Technologies for Preventing the 'New' Dementia
Ambiguous Optimism in the Canadian Context
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 4564484 |
|---|---|
| Autores | A Leibing (0000-0003-2658-3497, Université de Montréal, autor correspondente), Cynthia Lazzaroni (0009-0007-3616-9413, McGill University), Niklas Petersen (0000-0002-3926-3823, University of Göttingen) |
| Ano | 2023 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Fascículo | 7 |
| Páginas | 607-622 |
| Data de publicação | 2023-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2023.2244649 |
| PMID | 37552820 |
| OpenAlex | W4385650712 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 2 |
| Referências citadas | 60 |
Experts' views on the use of mostly digital technologies for dementia prevention are characterized by a simultaneity of "gerontechnological optimism" and skeptical hesitancy. Despite the hope for progress in dementia prevention through preventive technologies, experts also point to the complexity of prevention, the importance of environmental factors and public health policies, and the danger of an excessive focus on individual interventions. Without questioning the positive impact such technologies can have on many people, we claim that the experts' ambiguity reveals a deeper concern, a kind of "cruel optimism" that is based on a fantasy of "supported autonomy
Ambiguity · Autonomy · Context (archaeology · Dementia · Emerging technologies · Epistemology · Optimism · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Skepticism · Aging and Gerontology Research · Computer Science · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research · Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging · History · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Les Technologies de L'Espoir
Knowing, Unknowing, and Re-knowing
Do “Brain-Training” Programs Work?
From Intervention to Co-constitution
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
The Converged Experience of Risk and Disease
New Medical Technologies and Society - Reordering Life
Lessening the Evils, Online
Digitised health, medicine and risk
Putting a Name to It
Sorting Things Out
The Politics of Life Itself
How to fix a broken heart
The turn towards prevention – moral narratives and the vascularization of Alzheimer’s disease
On the perils of invoking neoliberalism in public health critique
Understanding health promotion in a neoliberal climate and the making of health conscious citizens
Health-related lifestyle advice
From Triple Win to Triple Sin
Tracked and fit
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare
Why Personal Dreams Matter
The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology
Hope Against Hype - Accountability in Biopasts, Presents and Futures
Anticipation
Biological Relatives - IVF, Stem Cells and the Future of Kinship
Technology Optimism or Pessimism about Genomic Science
Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity Prevention in Germany
Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice
Neither Body nor Brain
The Method of Hope
Cultures of Optimism
Tense Prescriptions? Alzheimer Medications and the Anthropology of Uncertainty
Technologies and Health Inequities
| Obras citantes distintas | 2 |
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 2 |