Science, Technology and the Ageing Society

Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in globalised societies, for which technological solutions are sought. This book proposes that science, technology and medicine should be understood as both partaking in creation of the problems of the ageing society as well as in their solution.

Tiago Moreira is Reader in Sociology at Durham University.

Chapter 1. Science, Technology and the 'Ageing Society' Chapter 2. Patching the science, technology and ageing conjunction Chapter 3. Assembling the 'ageing society' Chapter 4. The 'Ageing Society' and its others Chapter 5. Re-quantifying age? Chapter 6. Individualising Ageing? Chapter 7. Re-working ageing Chapter 8. Caring for ageing? Chapter 9. Biomedicalising ageing? Chapter 10. The end of the 'ageing society'?