Science, Technology and the Ageing Society

ISBN-13: 9781138344662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 228 str.

Tiago Moreira

Opis

Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in globalised societies, for which technological solutions are sought. This book proposes that science, technology and medicine should be understood as both partaking in creation of the problems of the ageing society as well as in their solution.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Science, Technology and the ‘Ageing Society’  Chapter 2. Patching the science, technology and ageing conjunction  Chapter 3. Assembling the ‘ageing society’  Chapter 4. The ‘Ageing Society’ and its others  Chapter 5. Re-quantifying age?  Chapter 6. Individualising Ageing?  Chapter 7. Re-working ageing  Chapter 8. Caring for ageing?  Chapter 9. Biomedicalising ageing?  Chapter 10. The end of the ‘ageing society’?

O autorze

Tiago Moreira is Reader in Sociology at Durham University.