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Toward Post Ageing - Technology in an Ageing Society (Hardcover, 2014 ed.) Loot Price: R3,292
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Toward Post Ageing - Technology in an Ageing Society (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Katarina Friberg Felsted, Scott D. Wright

Toward Post Ageing - Technology in an Ageing Society (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

Katarina Friberg Felsted, Scott D. Wright

Series: Healthy Ageing and Longevity, 1

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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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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Healthy Ageing and Longevity, 1
Release date: November 2014
First published: 2014
Authors: Katarina Friberg Felsted • Scott D. Wright
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 157
Edition: 2014 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-09050-4
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Care of the elderly
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LSN: 3-319-09050-X
Barcode: 9783319090504

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