Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness Through an Ageing, Science, and Technology Lens

by Kelly Joyce (Editor), Meika Loe (Editor)

Overview

Technogenarians investigates the older política 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444333800
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/04/2010
Series:	Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs , #5
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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.

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

1 Theorising technogenarians: a sociological approach to ageing, technology and health Kelly Joyce Meika Loe 1

2 A history of the future: the emergence of contemporary anti-ageing medicine Courtney Everts Mykytyn 10

3 In the vanguard of biomedicine" The curious and contradictory case of anti-ageing medicine Jennifer R. Fishman Richard A. Settersten Jr Michael A. Flatt 25

4 Science, medicine and virility surveillance: 'sexy seniors' in the pharmaceutical imagination Barbara L. Marshall 38

5 Time, clinic technologies, and the making of reflexive longevity: the cultural work of time left in an ageing society Sharon R. Kaufman 51

6 Aesthetic anti-ageing surgery and technology: women's friend or foe" Abigail T. Brooks 64

7 'A second youth': pursuing happiness and respectability through cosmetic surgery in Finland Taina Kinnunen 83

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 John Bond 97

9 Liberating the wanderers: using technology to unlock doors for those living with dementia Johanna M. Wigg 112

10 Output that counts: pedometers, sociability and the contested terrain of older adult fitness walking Denise A. Copelton 127

11 Doing it my way: old women, technology and wellbeing Meika Loe 142

12 'But obviously not for me': robots, laboratories and the defiant identity of elder test users Louis Neven 157

Index 169

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

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

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