Technogenarians
Subtitle: studying health and illness through an ageing, science, and technology lens
By: edited by Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe
Series: Sociology of health and illness monograph series; Sociology of health and illness monograph series
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781444333800
Subjects: Aging; Gerontology; Geriatrics; Technology
Description: "Technogenarians investigates the older person's experiences of health, illness, science, and technology. It presents a greater theoretical and empirical understanding of the biomedical aspects of aging bodies, minds, and emotions, and the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions.    A unique scholarly investigation into elders as technology users  Emphasizes the need to put aging, science, and technology in the center of analyses of health and illness  Explores the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions      Offers a critical study of the transformation of aging bodies, minds, and emotions into medical problems in need of medical solutions      Combines two scholarly areas - Science and Technology Studies and the Sociology of Aging, Health, and Illness -  to produce innovative scholarship"--

"Science and technology have become central to the daily experiences of health and illness for older people, from pharmaceuticals to walkers and cell phones. This has resulted in the 'technogenarian'- the technologically savvy older person. The authors investigate elders' experiences of health, illness, science, and technology; they emphasize the need to put aging, science, and technology in the centre of analyses of health and illness. Technogenarians adds theoretical and empirical depth to our understanding of two concurrent trends: firstly, the biomedical aspects of aging bodies, minds, and emotions, including the development of anti-aging or longevity medicine; and secondly, the rise of gerontechnology industries and professionsƯ, who largely accept the aging processes and who provide technology to assist the changes brought on by ageing. By investigating elders' experiences of health, illness, science, and technology, Technogenarians theorizes how and where these two trends overlap and differ in relation to ageism, health, and illness"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorising technogenarians : a sociological approach to ageing, technology and health / Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe; title: A history of the future : the emergence of contemporary anti-ageing medicine / Courtney Everts Mykytyn; title: In the vanguard of biomedicine? The curious and contradictory case of anti-ageing medicine / Jennifer R. Fishman, Richard A. Settersten Jr. and Michael A. Flatt; title: Science, medicine and virility surveillance : 'sexy seniors' in the pharmaceutical imagination / Barbara L. Marshall; title: Time, clinic technologies, and the making of reflexive longevity : the cultural work of time left in an ageing society / Sharon R. Kaufman; title: Aesthetic anti-ageing surgery and technology : women's friend or foe? / Abigail T. Brooks; title: 'A second youth' : pursuing happiness and respectability through cosmetic surgery in Finland / Taina Kinnunen; title: Ageing in place and technologies of place : the lived experience of people with dementia in changing social, physical and technological environments / Katherine Brittain ... [et al.]; title: Liberating the wanderers : using technology to unlock doors for those living with dementia / Johanna M. Wigg; title: Output that counts : pedometers, sociability and the contested terrain of older adult fitness walking / Denise A. Copelton; title: Doing it my way : old women, technology and wellbeing / Meika Loe; title: 'But obviously not for me' : robots, laboratories and the defiant identity of elder test users / Louis Neven.