Article ID: CBB001552710

Anti-Aging Medicine: Notes On a Socio-Technical Controversy (2014)

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Leitao, António Nogueira (Author)
Pedro, Rosa Maria Leite Ribeiro (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 21, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 1361-1378


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Portuguese.
Language: Portuguese

After some decades of struggle, geriatrics and gerontology have become the legitimate sciences of aging. Today, their status is being questioned. In its short history, anti-aging medicine has taken root as a medical practice that questions how to address biological aging. In so doing, all medicine is questioned. Here, we explore in particular how this controversy is structured around the founding principles of the sciences of aging. Is there any basis for these questionings? How have they been treated by those who have received them? Taking a socio-technical viewpoint, it is worth considering that for geriatricians and gerontologists, the need to criticize anti-aging medicine also raises some important reflections about how the sciences of aging address their subject.

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Authors & Contributors
Hilton, Claire
Bridgen, Paul
Denham, Michael
Evenden, Matthew D.
Grant, Susan
Hunter, Cecily
Journals
Social History of Medicine
History of Psychiatry
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Canadian Historical Review
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Gesnerus
Publishers
Taylor & Francis
Bloomsbury Academic
Éditions Rue d'Ulm
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pickering & Chatto
Concepts
Geriatrics
Controversies and disputes
Aging
Medicine
Authority of medicine
Medicine and society
People
Comfort, Alex
Shulman, Morton
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
Early modern
17th century
Modern
Places
England
United States
Great Britain
Ontario (Canada)
Soviet Union
Australia
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