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Annette Leibing and Silke Schicktanz (eds): Preventing dementia?: Critical perspectives on a new paradigm of preparing for old age
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Given the lack of effective curative treatment options and in light of a significant reconceptualization of Alzheimer’s disease, the focus of dementia research has shifted towards prevention, risk prediction, and detection in very early disease stages. In the context of these shifts, the edited volume Preventing Dementia?: Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age (edited by Annette Leibing and Silke Schicktanz) collects critical and insightful positions on the new paradigm of dementia prevention from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. The editors introduce the overarching topic of prevention by reflecting on the optimistic framing of modifiable risk factors and their novelty in the dementia context. Leibing and Schicktanz call for a cautious reception of the findings in the Lancet report(s) and draw attention to epistemic, ethical, and socio-political issues of what the editors term the contested “new dementia” and to the effect that this might have on rethinking individual and societal perceptions of aging. The contributions of the anthology depict the social and cultural dimensions of dementia discourses and consider the ethical implications of the changing conceptions of Alzheimer’s disease as well as the shift towards early disease stages and prevention. With this, the anthology initiates a debate about the often implicit unresolved social, ethical, and political implications and preconditions of the medical understanding and handling of cognitive disorders.Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1018
Les technologies de l'espoir - la fabrique d'une histoire à accomplir
No full textLes technologies de l’espoir : la fabrique d’une histoire à accomplir . sous la direction de Annette Leibing et Virginie Tournay. Presses de l’Université de Laval, juin 2010 (Sociétés Culture et Santé). ISBN 2763789951 I. Introduction Les technologies de l’espoir : un cadre théorique pour des raisons pratiques, Annette Leibing (Université de Montréal) et Virginie Tournay (UMR Pacte, CNRS, IEP Grenoble) Les technologies de l’espoir : un cadre d’analyse au quotidien Au-delà du concevable et d..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Parution - Body & Society
No full textParution - Body & Society December 2013; Vol. 19, No. 4 The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://bod.sagepub.com/content/vol19/issue4/?etoc Articles Rewriting Bodies, Portraiting Persons? The New Genetics, the Clinic and the Figure of the Human Joanna Latimer The Hoarding Economy of Endometrial Stem Cell Storage Maria Fannin Neither Body nor Brain: Comparing Preventive Attitudes to Prostate Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease Annette Leibing and Antje Kampf Doing Wholeness, Pro..
Parution - Les technologies de l'espoir. La fabrique d'une histoire à accomplir
No full textParution - Les technologies de l'espoir. La fabrique d'une histoire à accomplir Annette Leibing et Virginie Tournay (dir.), Les technologies de l'espoir. La fabrique d'une histoire à accomplir, Presses de l'université de Laval, 2010, 320 p. Cet ouvrage est un plaidoyer pour l’établissement d’un cadre d’analyse particulier aux technologies de l’espoir, c’est-à-dire à l’ensemble des procédés biotechnologiques définis par leurs promoteurs comme des outils médicaux dotés d’une capacité p..
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
A. Leibing (éd.), Tecnologias do corpo. Uma antropologia das medicinas no Brasil (Technologies du corps. Une anthropologie des médecines au Brésil)
Full text linkEn 1997, Annette Leibing réunissait des écrits d’anthropologues brésiliens dans un volume intitulé The Medical Anthropologies in Brazil, rendant disponible au monde anglophone l’importante production brésilienne. Elle publie maintenant des analyses anthropologiques sur divers aspects de la santé au Brésil. Ouvrage collectif, Tecnologias do corpo a trois volets. Le premier porte sur la santé mentale et sur la façon dont celle-ci déborde ses frontières biologiques. Le second illustre comment un..
La verdad de Hermes. Sobre la autoridad en los textos etnográficos
No full textSe analizan cuatro "escuelas" de enfoques cualitativos para la escritura etnográfica sobre la base del rol de autor/escritor: Naturalismo, etnometodología, emocionalismo y posmodernismo (si es que tal enfoque existe). En cada uno de estos enfoques el autor se expresa desde posiciones diferentes, explorando así, desde distintos ángulos, la realidad en estudio. Finalmente, se arguye que la combinación de estas cuatro "escuelas", cada una con sus propias limitaciones y revelaciones, podría conducir a un entendimiento más amplio de los demas y de nosotros mismos
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