Critical Readings of Interest
On Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Ballenger, J. F., Whitehouse P. J., Lyketsos, C. G., Rabins, P. V., & Karlawish, J. H. T. (2009) Treating dementia: Do we have a pill for it? Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Basting, A. D. (2009) Forget memory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Bassett, R., and Graham, J. E. (2007) Memorabilities: Enduring relationships, memories and abilities in dementia. Ageing & Society 27: 533-554.
Beard, R. & Fox, P. J. (2008) Resisting social disenfranchisement: Negotiating collective identities and everyday life with memory loss. Social Science & Medicine 66: 1509-1520.
George, D., Whitehouse, P. J. & Ballenger, J. (2011) The Evolving Classification of Dementia. Cultural Medical Psychiatry 35: 417-435.
Graham, J. E. (2008) Facilitating regulation: The dance of statistical significance and clinical meaningfulness in standardizing technologies for dementia. Biosocieties 3: 241-263.
Graham, J. E. (2010) The science, politics, and everyday life of recognizing effective treatments for dementia. In Contesting Age & Loss, (eds.) J. E. Graham & P. H. Stephenson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Leibing, A. (2009) Tense prescriptions? Alzheimer medications and the anthropology of uncertainty. Transcultural Psychiatry 46(1): 180-206.
Leibing, A & Cohen, L. (eds.) (2006) Thinking about dementia: Culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility. New York: Rutgers University Press.
Low, L.F., & Anstey, K. J. (2009) Dementia literacy: Recognition and beliefs on dementia of
the Australian public. Alzheimer’s & Dementia 5: 43-49.
Moreira, T., May, C., & Bond, J. (2009) Regulatory objectivity in action: Mild cognitive impairment and the collective production of uncertainty. Social Studies of Science 39: 665-690.
Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology (2006) Special issue: Mild Cognitive Impairment.
On History and Memory
Ballenger, J. F. (2006) Self, senility, and Alzheimer’s disease in modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Carruthers, M. (1990) The book of memory: A Study of memory in medieval culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Draaisma, D. (2000) Metaphors of memory: A history of ideas about the mind. Trans. P. Vincent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hacking, I. (1996) Memory Sciences, Memory Politics. In P. Antze & M. Lambek (Eds.), Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. London & New York: Routledge.
Mayer-Schonberger, V. (2009) Delete: The virtue of forgetting in the digital age. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Sherman, C. R., & Lukehart, P. M. (Eds.) (2000) Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Carlisle, PA: The Trout Gallery. Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle.
Sorabji, R. (2006) Aristotle on memory 2e. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sutton, J. (1998) Philosophy and memory traces: Descartes to Connectionism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
On Neuroscience and Brains
Cohn, S. (2004) Increasing Resolution, Intensifying Ambiguity: An Ethnographic Account of Seeing Life in Brain Scans. Economy and Society 33(1), 52-76.
Dumit, J. (2004) Picturing personhood: Brain scans and biomedical identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Finger, S. (2000) Minds behind the brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hagner, M., & Borck, C. (2001) Mindful practices: On the neurosciences in the twentieth century. Science in Context, 14: 507-510.
Harrington, A. (1987) Mind, medicine, and the double brain. A study in nineteenth-century thought. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
History of the Human Sciences (2010) Special Issue on ‘Neuroscience, Power and Culture’ 23(1).
Littlefield, M. & Johnson, J. (eds.) (2012) The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press.
Ortega, F. & Vidal, F. (2011) Neurocultures: A glimpse into the future. Peter Lang Publishers.
Pickersgill, M. & Keulen, I. V. (2011) Sociological reflections on the neurosciences. Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
Rose, S. (2005) The future of the brain: The promise and perils of tomorrow’s neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.
Star, L. (1989) Regions of the mind: Brain research and the quest for scientific certainty. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Stephan, B. C. M., Matthews, F., McKeith, I. G., Bond, J., & Brayne, C. (2007) Early cognitive change in the general population: How do different definitions work? Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 55, 1534-1540.
Vidal, F. (2009) Brainhood, anthropological figure of modernity. History of the Human Sciences 22(1): 5-36.
Whitehouse, P. J., & Moody, H. R. (2006) Mild cognitive impairment: A ‘hardening of the
categories’? Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 5(1):11-25.
Whitehouse, P. J., & Juengst, E. T. (2005) Antiaging medicine and mild cognitive impairment:
Practice and policy issues for geriatrics. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 53(8): 1417-1422.
On Biosocial, Pharmaceutical and Enhancement Cultures
Abraham, J. (2009) Sociology of pharmaceuticals development and regulation: a realist empirical research programme, In S. J. Williams, J. Gabe and P. Davis (eds.) Pharmaceuticals and Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
Barr, M. and Rose, D. (2009) The great ambivalence; factors likely to affect service user and public acceptability of the pharmacogenomics of antidepressant medication. In S.J. Williams, J. Gabe and P. Davis (eds.) Pharmaceuticals and Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
British Medical Association (2007) Boosting Your Brain Power: Ethical Aspects of Cognitive Enhancements. London: BMA.
Gibbon, S., & Novas, C. (2008) Biosocialities, genetics and the social sciences: Making biologies and identities. London: Routledge.
Gilleard, C., & Higgs, P. (2000) Cultures of ageing: Self, citzenship and the body. London: Prentice Hall.
DeGrazia, D. (2005) Enhancement Technologies and Human Identity. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30(3): 261-283.
Hall, S. S. (2003) The quest for a smart pill. Scientific American, 289(3): 54-57: 60-55.
Hansen, R. A., Gartlehner, G., Lohr, K. N., & Kaufer, D. I. (2007) Functional outcomes of drug treatment in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Drugs Aging, 24(2), 155-167.
Healy, D. (2006) Let them eat prozac. New York: New York University Press.
Hogle, L. F. (2005) Enhancement Technologies and the Body. Annual Review of Anthropology 34: 695-716.
Hogle, L. F. (2007) Emerging Medical Technologies, in The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 3e, E. J. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch, and J. Wajcman (eds.) Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, Pp. 841-873.
Katz, S. & Marshall, B. L. (2004) Is the ‘functional’ normal? Aging, sexuality and the bio-marking of successful living. History of the Human Sciences, 17 (1), 53-75.
Katz, S. (2005) Cultural aging: Life course, lifestyle and senior worlds. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Katz, S., & Peters, K. R. (2008) Enhancing the mind? Memory medicine, dementia, and the aging brain. Journal of Aging Studies, 22(4): 348-355.
Kontos, P. (2004) Embodied selfhood: Redefining agency in Alzheimer’s disease. In E. Tulle (Ed.), Old age and agency. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Pp.105-121.
Maasen, S. & Sutter, B. (eds.) (2007) On willing selves: Neoliberal politics vis-a-vis theneuroscientific challenge. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Mehlman, M. J. (2009) The Price of Perfection: Individualism and society in the era of biomedical enhancement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Moynihan, R. and Mintzes, B. (2010) Sex, Lies & Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit From Female Sexual Dysfunction. Vancouver: Greystone Books.
Rose, N. (2007) The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Rothman, S. M., & Rothman, D. J. (2003) The pursuit of perfection: The promise and perils of medical enhancement. New York: Vintage Books.
Schermer, M., Bolt, I., de Jongh, R. and Olivier, B. (2009) The future of pharmacological enhancements: Expectations and policies. Neuroethics 2: 75-87.
Will, C. and Moreira, T. (2010) Medical Proofs, Social Experiments: Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Basting, A. D. (2009) Forget memory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Bassett, R., and Graham, J. E. (2007) Memorabilities: Enduring relationships, memories and abilities in dementia. Ageing & Society 27: 533-554.
Beard, R. & Fox, P. J. (2008) Resisting social disenfranchisement: Negotiating collective identities and everyday life with memory loss. Social Science & Medicine 66: 1509-1520.
George, D., Whitehouse, P. J. & Ballenger, J. (2011) The Evolving Classification of Dementia. Cultural Medical Psychiatry 35: 417-435.
Graham, J. E. (2008) Facilitating regulation: The dance of statistical significance and clinical meaningfulness in standardizing technologies for dementia. Biosocieties 3: 241-263.
Graham, J. E. (2010) The science, politics, and everyday life of recognizing effective treatments for dementia. In Contesting Age & Loss, (eds.) J. E. Graham & P. H. Stephenson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Leibing, A. (2009) Tense prescriptions? Alzheimer medications and the anthropology of uncertainty. Transcultural Psychiatry 46(1): 180-206.
Leibing, A & Cohen, L. (eds.) (2006) Thinking about dementia: Culture, loss, and the anthropology of senility. New York: Rutgers University Press.
Low, L.F., & Anstey, K. J. (2009) Dementia literacy: Recognition and beliefs on dementia of
the Australian public. Alzheimer’s & Dementia 5: 43-49.
Moreira, T., May, C., & Bond, J. (2009) Regulatory objectivity in action: Mild cognitive impairment and the collective production of uncertainty. Social Studies of Science 39: 665-690.
Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology (2006) Special issue: Mild Cognitive Impairment.
On History and Memory
Ballenger, J. F. (2006) Self, senility, and Alzheimer’s disease in modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Carruthers, M. (1990) The book of memory: A Study of memory in medieval culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Draaisma, D. (2000) Metaphors of memory: A history of ideas about the mind. Trans. P. Vincent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hacking, I. (1996) Memory Sciences, Memory Politics. In P. Antze & M. Lambek (Eds.), Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. London & New York: Routledge.
Mayer-Schonberger, V. (2009) Delete: The virtue of forgetting in the digital age. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Sherman, C. R., & Lukehart, P. M. (Eds.) (2000) Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Carlisle, PA: The Trout Gallery. Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle.
Sorabji, R. (2006) Aristotle on memory 2e. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sutton, J. (1998) Philosophy and memory traces: Descartes to Connectionism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
On Neuroscience and Brains
Cohn, S. (2004) Increasing Resolution, Intensifying Ambiguity: An Ethnographic Account of Seeing Life in Brain Scans. Economy and Society 33(1), 52-76.
Dumit, J. (2004) Picturing personhood: Brain scans and biomedical identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Finger, S. (2000) Minds behind the brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hagner, M., & Borck, C. (2001) Mindful practices: On the neurosciences in the twentieth century. Science in Context, 14: 507-510.
Harrington, A. (1987) Mind, medicine, and the double brain. A study in nineteenth-century thought. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
History of the Human Sciences (2010) Special Issue on ‘Neuroscience, Power and Culture’ 23(1).
Littlefield, M. & Johnson, J. (eds.) (2012) The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press.
Ortega, F. & Vidal, F. (2011) Neurocultures: A glimpse into the future. Peter Lang Publishers.
Pickersgill, M. & Keulen, I. V. (2011) Sociological reflections on the neurosciences. Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
Rose, S. (2005) The future of the brain: The promise and perils of tomorrow’s neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.
Star, L. (1989) Regions of the mind: Brain research and the quest for scientific certainty. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Stephan, B. C. M., Matthews, F., McKeith, I. G., Bond, J., & Brayne, C. (2007) Early cognitive change in the general population: How do different definitions work? Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 55, 1534-1540.
Vidal, F. (2009) Brainhood, anthropological figure of modernity. History of the Human Sciences 22(1): 5-36.
Whitehouse, P. J., & Moody, H. R. (2006) Mild cognitive impairment: A ‘hardening of the
categories’? Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 5(1):11-25.
Whitehouse, P. J., & Juengst, E. T. (2005) Antiaging medicine and mild cognitive impairment:
Practice and policy issues for geriatrics. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 53(8): 1417-1422.
On Biosocial, Pharmaceutical and Enhancement Cultures
Abraham, J. (2009) Sociology of pharmaceuticals development and regulation: a realist empirical research programme, In S. J. Williams, J. Gabe and P. Davis (eds.) Pharmaceuticals and Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
Barr, M. and Rose, D. (2009) The great ambivalence; factors likely to affect service user and public acceptability of the pharmacogenomics of antidepressant medication. In S.J. Williams, J. Gabe and P. Davis (eds.) Pharmaceuticals and Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
British Medical Association (2007) Boosting Your Brain Power: Ethical Aspects of Cognitive Enhancements. London: BMA.
Gibbon, S., & Novas, C. (2008) Biosocialities, genetics and the social sciences: Making biologies and identities. London: Routledge.
Gilleard, C., & Higgs, P. (2000) Cultures of ageing: Self, citzenship and the body. London: Prentice Hall.
DeGrazia, D. (2005) Enhancement Technologies and Human Identity. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30(3): 261-283.
Hall, S. S. (2003) The quest for a smart pill. Scientific American, 289(3): 54-57: 60-55.
Hansen, R. A., Gartlehner, G., Lohr, K. N., & Kaufer, D. I. (2007) Functional outcomes of drug treatment in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Drugs Aging, 24(2), 155-167.
Healy, D. (2006) Let them eat prozac. New York: New York University Press.
Hogle, L. F. (2005) Enhancement Technologies and the Body. Annual Review of Anthropology 34: 695-716.
Hogle, L. F. (2007) Emerging Medical Technologies, in The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 3e, E. J. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch, and J. Wajcman (eds.) Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, Pp. 841-873.
Katz, S. & Marshall, B. L. (2004) Is the ‘functional’ normal? Aging, sexuality and the bio-marking of successful living. History of the Human Sciences, 17 (1), 53-75.
Katz, S. (2005) Cultural aging: Life course, lifestyle and senior worlds. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Katz, S., & Peters, K. R. (2008) Enhancing the mind? Memory medicine, dementia, and the aging brain. Journal of Aging Studies, 22(4): 348-355.
Kontos, P. (2004) Embodied selfhood: Redefining agency in Alzheimer’s disease. In E. Tulle (Ed.), Old age and agency. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Pp.105-121.
Maasen, S. & Sutter, B. (eds.) (2007) On willing selves: Neoliberal politics vis-a-vis theneuroscientific challenge. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Mehlman, M. J. (2009) The Price of Perfection: Individualism and society in the era of biomedical enhancement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Moynihan, R. and Mintzes, B. (2010) Sex, Lies & Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit From Female Sexual Dysfunction. Vancouver: Greystone Books.
Rose, N. (2007) The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Rothman, S. M., & Rothman, D. J. (2003) The pursuit of perfection: The promise and perils of medical enhancement. New York: Vintage Books.
Schermer, M., Bolt, I., de Jongh, R. and Olivier, B. (2009) The future of pharmacological enhancements: Expectations and policies. Neuroethics 2: 75-87.
Will, C. and Moreira, T. (2010) Medical Proofs, Social Experiments: Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
