Technogenarians

Studying Health and Illness Through an Ageing, Science, and Technology Lens

Nonfiction, Computers, General Computing, Skills

• ISBN: 9781444351897
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication: August 2, 2011
• Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
• Language: English

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