{"product_id":"technogenarians-9781444333800","title":"Technogenarians","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTechnogenarians\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eA unique scholarly investigation into elders as technology users\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEmphasizes the need to put aging, science, and technology in the center of analyses of health and illness\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eOffers a critical study of the transformation of aging bodies, minds, and emotions into medical problems in need of medical solutions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombines two scholarly areas - Science and Technology Studies and the Sociology of Aging, Health, and Illness - to produce innovative scholarship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u0026amp; Illness, 2011)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors.  \u003cp\u003e1 Theorising technogenarians: a sociological approach to ageing, technology and health (\u003ci\u003eKelly Joyce and Meika Loe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A history of the future: the emergence of contemporary anti-ageing medicine (\u003ci\u003eCourtney Everts Mykytyn\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 In the vanguard of biomedicine? The curious and contradictory case of anti-ageing medicine (\u003ci\u003eJennifer R. Fishman, Richard A. Settersten Jr and Michael A. Flatt\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Science, medicine and virility surveillance: 'sexy seniors' in the pharmaceutical imagination (\u003ci\u003eBarbara L. Marshall\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Time, clinic technologies, and the making of refl exive longevity: the cultural work of \u003ci\u003etime left\u003c\/i\u003e in an ageing society (\u003ci\u003eSharon R. Kaufman\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Aesthetic anti-ageing surgery and technology: women's friend or foe? (\u003ci\u003eAbigail T. Brooks\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 ‘A second youth’: pursuing happiness and respectability through cosmetic surgery in Finland (\u003ci\u003eTaina Kinnunen\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Ageing in place and technologies of place: the lived experience of people with dementia in changing social, physical and technological environments (\u003ci\u003eKatherine Brittain, Lynne Corner, Louise Robinson and John Bond\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Liberating the wanderers: using technology to unlock doors for those living with dementia (\u003ci\u003eJohanna M. Wigg\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Output that counts: pedometers, sociability and the contested terrain of older adult fitness walking (\u003ci\u003eDenise A. Copelton\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Doing it my way: old women, technology and wellbeing (\u003ci\u003eMeika Loe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 'But obviously not for me': robots, laboratories and the defi ant identity of elder test users (\u003ci\u003eLouis Neven\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408387121495,"sku":"9781444333800","price":33.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444333800.jpg?v=1730502713","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/technogenarians-9781444333800","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}