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Age as Disease: Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices

Age as Disease: Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices

Fletcher, David-Jack

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Aging & Elder CareBiologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9811600120
ISBN13: 9789811600128
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 349
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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'.

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