Book chapter
Science, technology and ageing
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology, pp 465-473
2026
Abstract
Science and technology are major forces in the social construction of ageing, and ageing is an often unacknowledged component of technoscientific imagination and practice. This chapter highlights medicalization, ageism, the desire for control, social inequality and understandings of independence as they relate to gerontechnologies and then critically analyses them in relation to two cases-pharmaceuticals and ambient assistive technologies. Technogenarians remain central to the analysis by examining how they reify, re-appropriate and resist cultural assumptions about old age in their use or non-use of technology.
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Details
- Title
- Science, technology and ageing
- Creators
- Kelly JoyceMeika LoeLauren Diamond-Brown
- Publication Details
- Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology, pp 465-473
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 2
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105030536165
- Other Identifier
- 991022146934704721