Age as Disease: Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789811600128)

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'.

Author: David-Jack Fletcher
ISBN-10: 9811600120
ISBN-13: 9789811600128
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2021
Pages: 349
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d