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Prologue: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease: Health, Ageing and Justice (2009)
Book Chapter
Moreira, T. (2010). Prologue: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease: Health, Ageing and Justice. In T. Mathar, & Y. J. Jansen (Eds.), Health, promotion and prevention programmes in practice (29-52). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839413029-002

The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on... Read More about Prologue: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease: Health, Ageing and Justice.

Ageing between gerontology and biomedicine (2009)
Journal Article
Moreira, T., & Palladino, P. (2009). Ageing between gerontology and biomedicine. BioSocieties, 4(4), 349-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1745855209990305

Over the past two decades, public interest in the basic biological processes underlying the phenomenon of ageing has grown considerably. New developments in biotechnology and health maintenance programmes appear to be forging new relationships betwee... Read More about Ageing between gerontology and biomedicine.

Regulatory objectivity in action: Mild cognitive impairment and the collective production of uncertainty (2009)
Journal Article
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(5), 665-690. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312709103481

In this paper, we investigate recent changes in the definition and approach to Alzheimer’s disease brought about by growing clinical, therapeutic and regulatory interest in the prodromal or preclinical aspects of this condition. In the last decade, t... Read More about Regulatory objectivity in action: Mild cognitive impairment and the collective production of uncertainty.

Little bottles and the promise of probiotics (2009)
Journal Article
Burges Watson, D., Moreira, T., & Murtagh, M. (2009). Little bottles and the promise of probiotics. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 13(2), 219-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459308099685

In this article we explore `regimes of hope' in contemporary bioscience as articulated in spaces of health consumption. We use the case study of probiotic little bottles, highlighting their promissory branding as consumer products, to consider how ho... Read More about Little bottles and the promise of probiotics.