Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease

1. Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease: Innovating with Care
Marianne Boenink, Harro Lente, Ellen Moors

Part I. Biomedical Research on Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostics: Background and Trends

2. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer’s: Are We Being (Ir)responsible?
Peter J. Whitehouse

3. On Short Cuts: The Complexity of Studying the Early Diagnosis and Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease
Annette Leibing

4. Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease: Searching for the Missing Link Between Biology and Clinic
Marianne Boenink

5. Care and Responsibility in Building Futures for Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Richard Milne, Shirlene Badger

Part II. Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease: Current Practices

6. Grey Matters: Emergent Biomarkers and Good Alzheimer’s Diagnostics
Anna Laura Laan

7. Understanding Cognitive Screening Tools: Navigating Uncertainty in Everyday Clinical Practice
Julia Swallow

8. Testing Memory, Shifting Responsibility: Internet-Based (Self-) Diagnostics of Alzheimer’s Disease
Claudia Egher, Sally Wyatt

Part III. Alzheimer’s Disease: Multiple Realities and Concerns

9. Making Alzheimer’s Disease Matter: The Politics and Interferences of Different Practices Concerning AD
Ingunn Moser

10. Dikes and Dementia: How Multiple Framings of Dementia Coexist During the Development of a National Dementia Strategy
Yvonne Cuijpers

11. Responsible Innovation: The Case of Alzheimer Diagnostics
Jeannette Pols, Amade M’charek

Part IV. Assessing Diagnostic Innovations

12. Informally Regulated Innovation Systems: Challenges for Responsible Innovation in Diagnostics
Fiona A. Miller, Robin Z. Hayeems, Stuart Hogarth

13. Valuing Diagnostic Innovations: Towards Responsible Health Technology Assessment
Ellen Moors, Alexander Peine

14. Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease: How to Innovate with Care
Marianne Boenink, Harro Lente, Ellen Moors

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Medical Sociology, Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Geriatric Care