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

Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness Through an Ageing, Science, and Technology Lens......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
1: Theorising technogenarians: a sociological approach to ageing, technology and health......Page 11
2: A history of the future: the emergence of contemporary anti-ageing medicine......Page 20
3: In the vanguard of biomedicine? The curious and contradictory case of anti-ageing medicine......Page 35
4: Science, medicine and virility surveillance: ‘sexy seniors’ in the pharmaceutical imagination......Page 48
5: Time, clinic technologies, and the making of reflexive longevity: the cultural work of time left in an ageing society......Page 61
6: Aesthetic anti-ageing surgery and technology: women’s friend or foe?......Page 74
7: 'A second youth’: pursuing happiness and respectability through cosmetic surgery in Finland......Page 93
8: Ageing in place and technologies of place: the lived experience of people with dementia in changing social, physical and technological environments......Page 107
9: Liberating the wanderers: using technology to unlock doors for those living with dementia......Page 122
10: Output that counts: pedometers, sociability and the contested terrain of older adult fitness walking......Page 137
11: Doing it my way: old women, technology and wellbeing......Page 152
12: ‘But obviously not for me’ : robots, laboratories and the defiant identity of elder test users......Page 167
Index......Page 179