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TECHNOGENARIANS
STUDYING HEALTH AND ILLNESS THROUGH AN AGEING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY LENS |
| By: |
Kelly Joyce (Editor), Meika Loe (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£20.75 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1444333801 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781444333800 |
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| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
17 September, 2010 |
| Series: |
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs |
| Pages: |
184 |
| Description: |
Technogenarians investigates the older person's experiences of health, illness, science, and technology. It presents a greater theoretical and empirical understanding of the biomedical aspects of aging bodies, minds, and emotions, and the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions--. |
| Synopsis: |
Technogenarians investigates the older person?s experiences of health, illness, science, and technology. It presents a greater theoretical and empirical understanding of the biomedical aspects of aging bodies, minds, and emotions, and the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions--. * A unique scholarly investigation into elders as technology users * Emphasizes the need to put aging, science, and technology in the center of analyses of health and illness * Explores the rise of gerontechnology industries and professions- * Offers a critical study of the transformation of aging bodies, minds, and emotions into medical problems in need of medical solutions * Combines two scholarly areas - Science and Technology Studies and the Sociology of Aging, Health, and Illness - to produce innovative scholarship |
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UK |
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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
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