Overview
- Presents a provocative interdisciplinary meta-analysis that contrasts paradigms with inflection points within the field of ageing
- Offers a detailed examination of the varied roles of technology in an ageing society
- Examines the promise and challenges of post ageing
- Addresses the implication of ethics in postponing and possibly ending ageing
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Healthy Ageing and Longevity (HAL, volume 1)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Transcending Disciplinary and Paradigmatic Tensions in Gerontology
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Toward Post Aging: A Critical Examination and Provisional Typology for Understanding the Varied Roles of Technology in an Aging Society
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The Next Inflection Point
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About this book
This book examines the emergent and expanding role of technologies that hold both promise and possible peril for transforming the ageing process in this century. It discusses the points and counterpoints of technological advances that would influence a reconstruction of what it means to age when embedded in a post-human vision for a post-biological future.
The book presents a provocative interdisciplinary meta-analysis that contrasts paradigms with inflection points, making the case that society has entered a new inflection point, provisionally labeled as Post Ageing. It goes on to discuss the moderate and radical versions of this inflection point and the philosophical issues that need to be addressed with the advent of post ageing activities: postponing and possibly ending ageing, primarily through technological advances.
This book will be a valuable resource for professionals who wish to review the continuum of varied constructs and intersects of technologies ranging from those purporting to enhance the activities of daily living in older adults, to those that would enable the older worker to stay competitive in the labor market, to those that propose to extend longevity and ultimately, claim to transcend ageing itself—moving toward a transhumanistic domain and more specifically, a post-ageing inflection point.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Toward Post Ageing
Book Subtitle: Technology in an Ageing Society
Authors: Katarina Friberg Felsted, Scott D. Wright
Series Title: Healthy Ageing and Longevity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09051-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09050-4Published: 05 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35725-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09051-1Published: 27 August 2014
Series ISSN: 2199-9007
Series E-ISSN: 2199-9015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 157
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedicine general, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Ethics, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Chemical Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Health & Hospitals, Pharma