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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Sociology |
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Routledge advances in sociology.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Science, technology and the 'ageing society'; What is the 'ageing society'?; Concerning science and technology in the 'ageing society'; Structure of the book; 2 Patching the science, technology and ageing conjunction; Introduction; Science, technology and ageing; The nexus of ageing and technoscience; 3 Assembling the 'ageing society'; Ageing society at the turn of the twenty-first century; Outline of a genealogy of the 'ageing society'; Reinventing the ageing society; Reimagining ageing; 4 The 'ageing society' and its others |
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IntroductionRetracing the population problem; Population and the eugenic 'agencement' of the liberal welfare state; The 'ageing society' and the reconfiguration of productivity; Vitality and the epidemiological transitions of the global society; Conclusion; 5 Re-quantifying age?; Introduction; Chronologising age; Problematising chronological age; Reimagining age measurement; The 'biological age' controversy; Conclusion; 6 Individualising ageing?; Introduction; Establishing the BLSA; Episode 1: Colloquium on Longitudinal Studies, 1965; Episode 2: Review of the Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1971 |
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Episode 3: Review of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1978Episode 4: Reassessment of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1987; Conclusion; 7 Reworking ageing; Introduction; Implementing the economics of ageing; Ageing and efficiency I; Ageing and efficiency II; The end and beginning of 'functional age'; Conclusion; 8 Caring for ageing; Introduction; Questioning old age care; Conditioning 'old age'; Caring for ageing with technology; Conclusion; 9 Biomedicalising ageing?; Introduction; Biomedicalisation of ageing; Diversity in ageing research institutions |
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Hybridising ageing, making Alzheimer's diseaseRe-hybridising Alzheimer's disease; Biogerontology as a critique of biomedicine; Conclusion; 10 The end of the 'ageing society'?; References; Archival sources; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317602194 |
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1317602196 |
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