Dementia and the Limits to Life
Anthropological Sensibilities, STS Interferences, and Possibilities for Action in Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337224 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingunn Moser (Diakonhjemmet høgskole, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 704-722 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243910396349 |
| OpenAlex | W2125882471 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 34 |
It is often assumed that it was the alliance between patient associations and neuroscience, which originally made dementia a matter for intervention. In parallel ways, science and technology studies (STS) often attributes the power to define and act upon matters of life to biomedicine and science. The concern here is that the science centrism of STS contributes to the dominance of science and biomedicine by granting these analytical privileges. As a result, alternative modes of acting, for instance in care, are disarticulated and made absent. This article mobilizes the sensibilities of anthropology to difference and draws upon excerpts of data from fieldwork in dementia care to show this and argue that there are different practices that act upon life and its limits; that these enact different versions of life and dementia; and that they matter because they shape how people are cared for and live and die with dementia
Alliance · Biology · Biomedicine · Dementia · Epistemology · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society
Vitenskap, teknologi og samfunn. En introduksjon til STS
Ageing and Dying Radically
Agential Conversations
Care at a Distance
Citizenship as Distributed Achievement
Music-based environmental therapy and training programme
The Patient 2. Many
Making a case for “Careful storage”
Slowing down decay
Markings
Design, institutional complexity and compromises
Biomarkers and brains
Community‐based dementia care re‐defined
Procedural Care
Dilemmas of intervention
Death in life or life in death? Dementia’s ontological challenge
Experimenting with care and cod
Somaticization, the making and unmaking of minded persons and the fabrication of dementia
Counting sleep? Critical reflections on a UK national sleep strategy
Ordinary Prosthetics
Dualities of dementia illness narratives and their role in a narrative economy
(In)visible materialities in the context of dementia care
«En av mine oppgaver er egentlig å selge tankene». Systematisk HMS-arbeid i sykehus som translasjonsprosess
‘Going with the flow’ of dementia
Enacting Homebirth Bodies
Seeing a Brain Through an Other
Engaging with Dementia
Anticipatory Grief in Dementia
Environmental Care
Framing Dementia Care Practices
Epigenetics and aging research
Endurance as a necessary path to reproduction? Repeating egg retrieval and painful encounters in Japanese mild approaches to in vitro fertilisation
The performativity of surveys
Problematising care burden research
Seeing the collective
Teksturering av omsorg
What is helpful in everyday living with dementia at home? Learning from families’ diverse scenarios
Configuring possibilities for people living with dementia at home
Knowing Patients
Experiences as Actors
Co-creative Affordance
Resisting decay
Evidence-making interventions in health
"The consequence of "doing nothing
The Care of Deeply Significant Insignificant Things
Pleasure and Dementia
Attunement as a practice of encountering dementia time in long-term eldercare work
Clinical encounter and the logic of relationality
Repelling neoliberal world-making? How the ageing-dementia relation is reassembling the social
Drawing in-situ
Unsettling descriptions
Dementia Matters
Time and Personhood across Early and Late-Stage Dementia
Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry
Science in action
The Logic of Care
Twice Dead
From Senility to Alzheimer's Disease
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
Care in Practice
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
Ageing between Gerontology and Biomedicine
Breathtaking practicalities
The medicalization of dementia
Regulatory Objectivity in Action
The Social Construction of What
Making Alzheimer’s disease matter. Enacting, interfering and doing politics of nature
After Method
Inside the Politics of Technology
Investigating Emerging Biomedical Practices
Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science
Dementia Entanglements in a Postgenomic Era
Performing Technology's Stories
Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies
The Body Multiple
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Gino's lesson on humanity
| Unique citing works | 54 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,86 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |