Emerging technologies for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease : innovating with care / Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente, Ellen Moors, editors.
Boenink, Marianne, editor.; Lente, Harro van, 1962- editor.; Moors, Ellen.
2016
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Title Emerging technologies for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease : innovating with care / Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente, Ellen Moors, editors.
ISBN 9781137540973 (electronic book)
1137540974 (electronic book)
9781137540966
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54097-3
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-54097-3 doi
Call Number RC523
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.831
Summary This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. It offers timely, multidisciplinary reflections on the social and ethical issues raised by promises of early diagnostics and asks under which conditions emerging diagnostic technologies can be considered a responsible innovation. The initial chapters in this edited volume provide an overview and a critical discussion of recent developments in biomedical research on Alzheimer's disease. Subsequent contributions explore the values at stake in current practices of dealing with Alzheimer's disease and dementia, both within and outside the biomedical domain. Novel diagnostic technologies for Alzheimer's disease emerge in a complex and shifting field, full of controversies. Innovating with care requires a precise mapping of how concepts, values and responsibilities are filled in through the confrontation of practices. In doing so, the volume offers a practice-based approach of responsible innovation that is also applicable to other fields of innovation.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 3, 2016).
Added Author Boenink, Marianne, editor.
Lente, Harro van, 1962- editor.
Moors, Ellen.
Series Health, technology, and society.
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Series Editors' Introduction; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; 1: Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: Innovating withßCare; The Desirability ofßBiomarker Diagnostics ofßAlzheimer's Disease; Responsible Innovation; Innovating withßCare; Chapter Outline; References; Part I: Biomedical Research onßAlzheimer's Disease Diagnostics: Background andßTrends; 2: The Diagnosis andßTreatment ofßAlzheimer's: Are WeßBeing (Ir)responsible?; History ofßDiagnosis and Treatment.

Current State ofßtheßAlzheimer's Field Crafting anßInnovative But Responsible Future; Early or Timely Diagnosis; Finding theßCure or Even anßEffective Therapy; A Case Study ofß'Irresponsibility'; Towards aßMore Responsible Future; New Approaches; References; 3: On Short Cuts: TheßComplexity ofßStudying theßEarly Diagnosis andßPrevention ofßAlzheimer's Disease; Two Decades, One Question; Around 1993; Around 2013; Even Milder Than Mild Cognitive Impairment: Prevention andßPrediction; Simplifications andßShort Cuts: OnßStudying Early Dementia; References.

4: Biomarkers forßAlzheimer's Disease: Searching forßtheßMissing Link Between Biology andßClinic Biomarkers: Connecting Biology andßClinic; AD Biomarker Research: Development andßClinical Drivers; AD Biomarker Research inßPractice: TheßLeARN Project; Choosing Candidate Markers andßTechnological Platforms; Choosing Outcome Measures; Choices Related toßPatient Inclusion andßFollow-Up; Conclusion; References; 5: Care andßResponsibility inßBuilding Futures forßAlzheimer's Disease Research; Cohort Studies; The Sociality ofßCohorts; The MRC Cognitive Function andßAgeing Study.

Mediating theßCognitive Function andßAgeing Study Meeting theßCohort; Care andßResponsibility; References; Part II: Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: Current Practices; 6: Grey Matters: Emergent Biomarkers andßGood Alzheimer's Diagnostics; Background andßMethods; Current Practices ofßAD-Diagnostics inßtheßNetherlands: AßHeterogeneous Field; Good AD-Diagnostics: Differences; The Good Diagnosis: Five Diagnostic Values; Modes ofßDiagnosing: 'Pulling Out All theßStops' or 'Holding Back'; Distributing Differences; Distribution by Taxonomic Considerations.

Distribution by Patients' Preferences Revisiting Current Practices ofßAD-Diagnostics: FromßGood toßBetter?; Value-Laden Taxonomies andßTaxonomy-Laden Preferences; Improving Practices ofßAD-Diagnostics; To Conclude: Emergent Biomarker Tools forßAD; References; 7: Understanding Cognitive Screening Tools: Navigating Uncertainty inßEveryday Clinical Practice; Methods; Clinician-Patient Interaction: Making ofßProvisionality; National Dementia CQUIN andßEarly Diagnosis: Constraining 'Care Work'; Discussion; References.

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