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This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia's growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from ageing, widely misunderstood by the public, that will one day be overcome through technoscience. This biopolitics generates dementia's public profile and is implicated in several problems, including the failure of drug discovery, the spread of stigma, the perpetuation of social inequalities and the lack of support that is available to people affected by dementia. Through a failure to critically engage with neuropsychiatric biopolitics, much dementia studies is complicit in these problems. Drawing on insights from critical psychiatry and critical gerontology, this book explores these problems and the relations between them, revealing how they are facilitated by neuro-agnostic dementia studies work that lacks robust biopolitical critiques and sociopolitical alternatives. In response, the book makes the case for a more biopolitically engaged'neurocritical'dementia studies and shows how such a tradition might be realised through the promotion of a promissory sociopolitics of dementia.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Funded by University of Manchester, UK.

Alles, was sich zwischen Menschen vollzieht, ist performativ wirksam und kann daraufhin überprüft und (um-)gestaltet werden. Die Wechselwirkungen zwischen der Performativität akademischer und gesellschaftlicher Wirklichkeiten bleiben jedoch häufig unterreflektiert. Anna Suchard zeigt, dass sich insbesondere zwischen den impliziten Normativitäten des zunehmend linearisierend agierenden Hochschulbetriebs und gesellschaftlich formulierten Zielen enorme Widersprüche bilden. Ihre dramaturgische Analyse, wie die konkrete Herstellung dieser Wirklichkeiten geschieht, lässt die Widersprüche sichtbar und verhandelbar werden - Rückenwind für all jene, die sich für eine ernst gemeinte Inter- und Transdisziplinarität einsetzen.

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health shows the construction of health through what is neglected and how the label of neglect is used to make the case that a shift in attitudes towards tropical diseases is based on changing policy practices of health and disease.Tropical diseases have moved from being of high importance for European empires to being neglected and unknown, and then returning to the spotlight once again. During this process, the understanding, framing, and overall character of the disease grouping has changed through a rediscovery of a health issue once rendered neglectable. The book depicts this change in relevance of tropical diseases from colonial history to the present day diseases across political, cultural, and socio- economic contexts. It shows the transformation of tropical diseases as a grouping that uncovers the changing strategies, tactics, and unintended consequences of advocacy campaigning by scientists, NGOs, and policymakers to drive disease issues up the policy agenda.Drawing on the emergent field of ignorance studies, the book explores ideas about the uses and deployment of both strategic and unintentional'not knowing'. It is aimed at academics and students in science and technology studies, the sociology of health and medicine, environmental sociology, public policy, and the history of science.