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Technogenarians – Studying Health and Illness Through an Ageing, Science, and Technology Lens: Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs

Autor K Joyce
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 sep 2010
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--.
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ISBN-13: 9781444333800
ISBN-10: 1444333801
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 161 x 230 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Wiley
Seria Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs

Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

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Upper level undergraduates, graduates, and faculty in the fields of sociology of health and illness, sociology, science and technology studies, and anthropology

Notă biografică

Kelly Joyce is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of William and Mary. Her research on technology, science, and health has been published in Science as Culture, Social Studies of Science, and other academic journals. Dr Joyce's book Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency (2008) offers a sociological exploration of magnetic resonance imaging technology. Her current research examines medical knowledge about, and the experiences of people who live with, autoimmune illnesses.

Meika Loe is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Colgate University in New York. Her critical scholarship on culture, age, medicine, technology, and gender has appeared in a range of academic journals including Contexts, Gender & Society, Feminism & Psychology, Symbolic Interaction, Sexualities, and Sociological Inquiry. She is the author of The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America (2004), and a forthcoming book on the oldest old in America.