Age as Disease - David-Jack Fletcher

Age as Disease

Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices
Buch | Softcover
349 Seiten
2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-16-0015-9 (ISBN)
117,69 inkl. MwSt
Age as Disease explores the foundations of gerontology as a discipline to examine the ways contemporary society constructs old age as a disease-state.
Age as Disease explores the foundations of gerontology as a discipline to examine the ways contemporary society constructs old age as a disease-state. Framed throughout as ‘gerontological hygeine’, this book examines contemporary regimes, strategies and treatment protocols deployed throughout Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The book deploys critical cultural theories such as biopolitics, somatechnics, ethics, and governmentality to examine how anti-aging technologies operate to problematise the aging body as always-already diseased, and how these come to constitute a movement of abolition, named here as ‘gerontological hygiene’.

Dr David-Jack Fletcher currently works with Western Sydney University Online as a Lead Unit Coordinator.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Biopolitics of Somatechnologies and Diseased Bodies.- Chapter 3: Gerontological Hygiene: Emergence and Contemporary Practice.- Chapter 4: Questions of the ‘Human’.- Chapter 5: Gerontological Treatment Protocols: An Ethical Inquiry.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Trajectories of Gerontological Hygiene.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo VII, 349 p.
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Schlagworte Anti-Aging • Biopolitics • ethics • Governmentality • Neoliberalism • somatechnics
ISBN-10 981-16-0015-5 / 9811600155
ISBN-13 978-981-16-0015-9 / 9789811600159
Zustand Neuware
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