Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease - Innovating with Care (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Health, Technology and Society
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Marianne Boenink • Harro van Lente • Ellen Moors
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	286
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-54096-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical equipment & techniques > Medical research Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Nursing > Geriatric nursing Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Nursing
LSN:	1-137-54096-6
Barcode:	9781137540966

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