Prologue: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease: Health, Ageing and Justice

Moreira, T.

doi:10.14361/9783839413029-002

Prologue: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease: Health, Ageing and Justice

Moreira, T.

Authors

Professor Tiago Moreira tiago.moreira@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

Thomas Mathar
Editor

Yvonne J.F.M. Jansen
Editor

Abstract

The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapters of this book present a view behind the scenes and zoom into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion. They analyse how patients are framed as being »at risk«, how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients' everyday lives. This makes the insights of this book relevant for prevention and health promotion practitioners, public health policy-makers and researchers.

Citation

Moreira, T. (2010). Prologue: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease: Health, Ageing and Justice. In T. Mathar, & Y. J. Jansen (Eds.), Health, promotion and prevention programmes in practice (29-52). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839413029-002

Online Publication Date	Dec 15, 2009
Publication Date	2010-01
Deposit Date	Jun 1, 2010
Pages	29-52
Book Title	Health, promotion and prevention programmes in practice.
Chapter Number	Prologue
ISBN	9783837613025
DOI	https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839413029-002
Publisher URL	http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1302/ts1302.php#top