Multi-Species Dementia Studies
Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach
Edited by Nicholas Jenkins, Anna Jack-Waugh and Louise Ritchie
Published
Jan 30, 2025Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1447368793Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jan 30, 2025Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1447368816Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jan 30, 2025Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1447368816Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy Press
Multi-Species Dementia Studies
Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more than humans alone. We live in a multi-species world but often think about dementia in mono-species ways. From the lab to the living room, other beings are “on the scene” and our relations with them affect how we understand, experience, and respond to dementia. Drawing on cutting-edge work across the social and biological sciences, this book offers readers the tools to respond to dementia in multi-species ways. By exploring a range of topics, from pathology to personhood, contributors highlight how thinking about dementia as a more-than-human phenomenon may enable new ways of responding to our global dementia challenge.
“Deeply insightful and innovative, these essays will intrigue readers across a range of disciplines. The recognition of posthumanist modes of co-becoming are both intellectually and emotionally engaging.” Margrit Shildrick, Stockholm University
“This eclectic and surprisingly moving text opens up a fresh and exciting direction for dementia studies. It issues a thoughtful and well-argued challenge to the very foundations of our thinking about dementia.” Richard Ward, University of Stirling
Nicholas Jenkins is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of the West of Scotland and a former Chancellor's Fellow of the University of Edinburgh.
Anna Jack Waugh is Senior Lecturer in Dementia at the Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice at the University of the West of Scotland.
Louise Ritchie is Reader in Dementia Research at the Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice at the University of the West of Scotland.
1. Introducing Multi-Species Dementia Studies - Nicholas Jenkins, Anna Jack-Waugh and Louise Ritchie
2. Fabricating Mice and Dementia: Opening up Relations in Multi-Species Research - Gail Davies, Richard Gorman and Richard Milne
3. What We Know about Dementia in Animals - Lorena Sordo
4. The Influence of Infectious Disease and Inflammation on Neurological Deficit - Anne Crilly, Stuart Woods and Fiona L. Henriquez
5. Love, Loss and Animals: A Posthumanist Account of Dementia in Multi-Species Kinship - Elizabeth Peel, Damien W. Riggs and Nik Taylor
6. End-of-Life Entanglements during the COVID-19 Lockdowns: Caring for and Caring about Human and Non-Human Animals - Vanessa Ashall
7. Personhood and Dementia: A Multi-Species View - Nicholas Jenkins, Anna Jack-Waugh and Louise Ritchie (with Anne Rankin)
8. Forging Human–Animal Bonds? Introducing Robotic Pets into the Care of People with Dementia - Ann M. Toohey, Jayne Beselt, Jennifer Hewson, David B. Hogan and Melanie Rock
9. Afterword: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach? - Anna Jack-Waugh, Nicholas Jenkins and Louise Ritchie
