Acknowledgements ................................................ x
1 Science, technology and the 'ageing society' ................. 1
What is the 'ageing society'? ................................ 2
Concerning science and technology in the 'ageing society' .... 7
Structure of the book ....................................... 10
2 Patching the science, technology and ageing conjunction ..... 14
Introduction ................................................ 14
Science, technology and ageing .............................. 15
The nexus of ageing and technoscience ....................... 22
3 Assembling the 'ageing society' ............................. 31
Ageing society at the turn of the twenty-first century ...... 32
Outline of a genealogy of the 'ageing society' .............. 36
Reinventing the ageing society .............................. 40
Reimagining ageing .......................................... 47
4 The 'ageing society' and its others ......................... 50
Introduction ................................................ 50
Retracing the population problem ............................ 51
Population and the eugenic 'agencement' of the liberal
welfare state ............................................... 56
The 'ageing society' and the reconfiguration of
productivity ................................................ 59
Vitality and the epidemiological transitions of the global
society ..................................................... 64
Conclusion .................................................. 69
5 Re-quantifying age? ......................................... 71
Introduction ................................................ 71
Chronologising age .......................................... 72
Problematising chronological age ............................ 76
Reimagining age measurement ................................. 81
The 'biological age' controversy ............................ 86
Conclusion .................................................. 94
6 Individualising ageing? ..................................... 96
Introduction ................................................ 96
Establishing the BLSA ....................................... 98
Episode I: Colloquium on Longitudinal Studies, 1965 ........ 104
Episode 2: Review of the Longitudinal Study of Aging,
1971 ....................................................... 106
Episode 3: Review of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of
Aging, 1978 ................................................ 110
Episode 4: Reassessment of the Baltimore Longitudinal
Study of Aging, 1987 ....................................... 112
Conclusion ................................................. 117
7 Reworking ageing ........................................... 119
Introduction ............................................... 119
Implementing the economics of ageing ....................... 121
Ageing and efficiency I .................................... 126
Ageing and efficiency II ................................... 131
The end and beginning of functional age .................... 135
Conclusion ................................................. 141
8 Caring for ageing .......................................... 143
Introduction ............................................... 143
Questioning old age care ................................... 145
Conditioning 'old age' ..................................... 149
Caring for ageing with technology .......................... 157
Conclusion ................................................. 161
9 Biomedicalising ageing? .................................... 162
Introduction ............................................... 162
Biomedicalisation of ageing ................................ 164
Diversity in ageing research institutions .................. 168
Hybridising ageing, making Alzheimer's disease ............. 175
Re-hybridising Alzheimer's disease ......................... 177
Biogerontology as a critique of biomedicine ................ 183
Conclusion ................................................. 189
10 The end of the 'ageing society'? ........................... 191
References .................................................... 199
Archival sources .............................................. 222
Index ......................................................... 223
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