Assessing the Sociocultural Impacts of Emerging Molecular Technologies for the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

Novel technologies for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) will impact the way society views and deals with AD and ageing. However, such “sociocultural” impacts are hardly acknowledged in standard approaches of technology assessment. In this paper, we outline three steps to assess such...

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Main Authors: Marianne Boenink, Yvonne Cuijpers, Anna Laura van der Laan, Harro van Lente, Ellen Moors
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/184298