Age as Disease Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Springer Nature Singapore
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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