Technogenarians

Studying Health and Illness Through an Ageing, Science, and Technology Lens
Herausgeber: Joyce, Kelly; Loe, Meika

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 'technogenarians' - technologically savvy older people. In investigating elders' experiences of health, illness, science, and technology, the authors emphasize the need to put ageing, science, and technology at 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 ageing bodies, minds, and emotions, including the development of anti-ageing or longevity medicine; and secondly, the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions, which largely accept the ageing processes and provide technology to assist the changes brought on by ageing. The book theorizes how and where these two trends overlap and differ in relation to ageism, health, and illness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781444333800
• ISBN-10: 1444333801
• Artikelnr.: 29844550

Autorenporträt

Kelly Joyce is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of William and Mary. Her research on technology, science, and health has been published in Science as Culture, Social Studies of Science, and other academic journals. Dr Joyce's book Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency (2008) offers a sociological exploration of magnetic resonance imaging technology. Her current research examines medical knowledge about, and the experiences of people who live with, autoimmune illnesses. Meika Loe is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Colgate University in New York. Her critical scholarship on culture, age, medicine, technology, and gender has appeared in a range of academic journals including Contexts, Gender & Society, Feminism & Psychology, Symbolic Interaction, Sexualities, and Sociological Inquiry. She is the author of The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America (2004), and a forthcoming book on the oldest old in America.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors.
1 Theorising technogenarians: a sociological approach to ageing, technology
and health (Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe).
2 A history of the future: the emergence of contemporary anti-ageing
medicine (Courtney Everts Mykytyn).
3 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).
4 Science, medicine and virility surveillance: 'sexy seniors' in the
pharmaceutical imagination (Barbara L. Marshall).
5 Time, clinic technologies, and the making of refl exive longevity: the
cultural work of time left in an ageing society (Sharon R. Kaufman).
6 Aesthetic anti-ageing surgery and technology: women's friend or foe? (
Abigail T. Brooks).
7 'A second youth': pursuing happiness and respectability through cosmetic
surgery in Finland (Taina Kinnunen).
8 Ageing in place and technologies of place: the lived experience of people
with dementia in changing social, physical and technological environments (
Katherine Brittain, Lynne Corner, Louise Robinson and John Bond).
9 Liberating the wanderers: using technology to unlock doors for those
living with dementia (Johanna M. Wigg).
10 Output that counts: pedometers, sociability and the contested terrain of
older adult fitness walking (Denise A. Copelton).
11 Doing it my way: old women, technology and wellbeing (Meika Loe).
12 'But obviously not for me': robots, laboratories and the defi ant
identity of elder test users (Louis Neven).
Index.

Rezensionen

"Technogenarians is timely volume about the devices, spaces, andmedicines, which 'technogenarians' use as they negotiatehealth and illness in everyday life." (Sociology of Health &Illness, 2011)