LEADER 04148nam 22006375 450 001 9910483381103321 005 20220501180134.0 010 $a9789811600135 010 $a9811600139 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-16-0013-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000011807043 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6524355 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6524355 035 $a(OCoLC)1246579039 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-16-0013-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011807043 100 $a20210321d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAge as Disease $eAnti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices /$fby David-Jack Fletcher 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 349 pages) 311 08$a9789811600128 311 08$a9811600120 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $a'Age as Disease provides important insights into the interconnections between biopolitics, ethics, and somatechnics, and how biological and medical language and metaphors shape social policies and support ageist positions. By reflecting these meeting points in terms of cultural representations, the book contributes significantly to the current discussions within the fields of Age/ing Studies and Cultural Gerontology and helps deconstruct notions of age/ing as essential and natural which ignore the different cultural meanings depending on time and place.' -Roberta Maierhofer, Professor, Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Austria 'Dr Fletcher's work is an astute examination of the construction of old age as a "disease" that must be fixed or avoided. Drawing on a plethora of philosophers including Foucault and Levinas, Fletcher provides an engaging discourse on what it means to be "old" in an age obsessed with youth. Bringing together biopolitics, science and philosophy, he persuasively illustrates the ways in which ageist attitudes are maintained and engrained in social discourse. This comprehensive study is an essential addition to the fields of cultural studies, gerontology and somatechnics, successfully critiquing the construction of the ultimate "Other": the elderly.' -Dr Siobhan Lyons, Media Scholar, Macquarie University and author of Death and the Machine (2018) Age as Disease explores the foundations of gerontology as a discipline to examine the ways contemporary society constructs old age as a disease-state. Framed throughout as 'gerontological hygeine', this book examines contemporary regimes, strategies and treatment protocols deployed throughout Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. 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 hygiene'. 606 $aSociology 606 $aBiotechnology 606 $aAging 606 $aEthnology 606 $aSociology 606 $aBiotechnology 606 $aAgeing 606 $aSociocultural Anthropology 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aBiotechnology. 615 0$aAging. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 14$aSociology. 615 24$aBiotechnology. 615 24$aAgeing. 615 24$aSociocultural Anthropology. 676 $a612.67 700 $aFletcher$b David-Jack$0849380 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483381103321 996 $aAge as disease$91896881 997 $aUNINA