Joyce / Loe Technogenarians

Studying Health and Illness Through an Ageing, Science, and Technology Lens
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9153-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

Technogenarians investigates the older person?s experiencesof health, illness, science, and technology. It presents a greatertheoretical and empirical understanding of the biomedical aspectsof aging bodies, minds, and emotions, and the rise ofgerontechnology industries and professions--.
* A unique scholarly investigation into elders as technologyusers
* Emphasizes the need to put aging, science, and technology inthe center of analyses of health and illness
* Explores the rise of gerontechnology industries andprofessions-
* Offers a critical study of the transformation of aging bodies,minds, and emotions into medical problems in need of medicalsolutions
* Combines two scholarly areas - Science and Technology Studiesand the Sociology of Aging, Health, and Illness - to produceinnovative scholarship

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joyce, Kelly

Loe, Meika

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 contemporaryanti-ageing medicine (Courtney Everts Mykytyn).
3 In the vanguard of biomedicine? The curious and contradictorycase of anti-ageing medicine (Jennifer R. Fishman, Richard A.Settersten Jr and Michael A. Flatt).
4 Science, medicine and virility surveillance: 'sexy seniors' inthe pharmaceutical imagination (Barbara L. Marshall).
5 Time, clinic technologies, and the making of refl exivelongevity: the cultural work of time left in an ageingsociety (Sharon R. Kaufman).
6 Aesthetic anti-ageing surgery and technology: women's friendor foe? (Abigail T. Brooks).
7 'A second youth': pursuing happiness andrespectability through cosmetic surgery in Finland (TainaKinnunen).
8 Ageing in place and technologies of place: the livedexperience of people with dementia in changing social, physical andtechnological environments (Katherine Brittain, Lynne Corner,Louise Robinson and John Bond).
9 Liberating the wanderers: using technology to unlock doors forthose living with dementia (Johanna M. Wigg).
10 Output that counts: pedometers, sociability and the contestedterrain 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 defiant identity of elder test users (Louis Neven).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kelly Joyce is Associate Professor of Sociology at theCollege 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. DrJoyce's book Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth ofTransparency (2008) offers a sociological exploration ofmagnetic resonance imaging technology. Her current researchexamines medical knowledge about, and the experiences of people wholive with, autoimmune illnesses.
Meika Loe is Associate Professor of Sociology andWomen's Studies at Colgate University in New York. Hercritical scholarship on culture, age, medicine, technology, andgender has appeared in a range of academic journals includingContexts, Gender & Society, Feminism &Psychology, Symbolic Interaction, Sexualities,and Sociological Inquiry. She is the author of The Riseof Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America(2004), and a forthcoming book on the oldest old in America.