Technogenarians : studying health and illness through an ageing, science, and technology lens /: studying health and illness through an ageing, science, and technology lens. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe.
• Other Names: Joyce, Kelly A (Kelly Ann), 1966-; Loe, Meika, 1973-
• Contents: Theorising technogenarians : a sociological approach to ageing, technology and health / Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe -- A history of the future : the emergence of contemporary anti-ageing medicine / Courtney Everts Mykytyn -- In the vanguard of biomedicine? The curious and contradictory case of anti-ageing medicine / Jennifer R. Fishman, Richard A. Settersten Jr. and Michael A. Flatt -- Science, medicine and virility surveillance : 'sexy seniors' in the pharmaceutical imagination / Barbara L. Marshall -- Time, clinic technologies, and the making of reflexive longevity : the cultural work of time left in an ageing society / Sharon R. Kaufman -- Aesthetic anti-ageing surgery and technology : women's friend or foe? / Abigail T. Brooks -- 'A second youth' : pursuing happiness and respectability through cosmetic surgery in Finland / Taina Kinnunen -- Ageing in place and technologies of place : the lived experience of people with dementia in changing social, physical and technological environments / Katherine Brittain ... [et al.] -- Liberating the wanderers : using technology to unlock doors for those living with dementia / Johanna M. Wigg -- Output that counts : pedometers, sociability and the contested terrain of older adult fitness walking / Denise A. Copelton -- Doing it my way : old women, technology and wellbeing / Meika Loe -- 'But obviously not for me' : robots, laboratories and the defiant identity of elder test users / Louis Neven.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (184 pages)
• Subjects: 305.260905; Gerontology; Technology; Aging; Geriatrics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781444351897
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.