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Fletcher David-Jack |
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Age as disease : anti-aging technologies, sites and practices / / David-Jack Fletcher |
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Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 349 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Aging - Physiological aspects |
Aging - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- What Is Aging? -- Foucauldian Biopolitics -- Neoliberalism -- Somatechnics -- Ethics -- Chapter Overview -- References -- 2: The Biopolitics of Somatechnologies and Diseased Bodies -- Biopolitics -- A Brief History of Longevity and Rejuvenation Techniques -- Algorithmic Somatechnologies: The 'Magic' of Trinfinity8 -- The American Dream, Eugenic Practices and the Nazi State -- Neo-eugenic Somatechnologies -- Governmentality and the Self -- Origins of the Camp -- References -- 3: Gerontological Hygiene: Emergence and Contemporary Practice -- Archaeology of Gerontology -- The Neoliberal Subject and Aging Policy -- 'Productive Aging' and Neoliberalism's 'Climate of Consent' -- Pathologizing Age: Biogerontology and Anti-Aging Somatechnologies -- Compounds for Elderly Citizens: Spaces for Abnormal and Docile Bodies -- The Surveillance of Aging -- Therapeutic Regimes: Creating Normative and Docile Bodies -- Implications for the Construction of the Human -- References -- 4: Questions of the 'Human' -- Genealogy of Humanism -- Inclusionary and Exclusionary Regimes -- Heidegger's Construction of the Human -- The Ethical Implications of Heideggerian Philosophy -- Arendt's Characteristics of the Human -- The Medicalized Elderly as Animal Laborans -- Derrida + The Human -- References -- 5: Gerontological Treatment Protocols: |
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