Age as disease : anti-aging technologies, sites and practices / / David-Jack Fletcher
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| Autore: |
Fletcher David-Jack
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| Titolo: |
Age as disease : anti-aging technologies, sites and practices / / David-Jack Fletcher
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| Pubblicazione: | Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
| ©2021 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (vii, 349 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 612.67 |
| Soggetto topico: | Aging - Physiological aspects |
| Aging - Social aspects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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: An Ethical Inquiry -- An Overview of Ethics -- The Animal Within: The Ethics of Testicular Xenotransplantation -- The Abolition of Aging: The GeroScience Network and Gerontological Hygiene -- References -- 6: Conclusion: Trajectories of Gerontological Hygiene -- Why Should Old Age Not Be Abolished? -- Emergent Technologies -- References -- References. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Age as disease |
| ISBN: | 981-16-0013-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910483381103321 |
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