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Age as Disease - Summary
David-Jack Fletcher's 'Age as Disease' challenges the traditional narrative around aging, arguing that we've medicalized a natural process, framing it as something to be feared, fought, and eradicated. Through a critical lens of 'gerontological hygiene,' Fletcher dissects the societal forces that shape our understanding of aging, pushing us to reconsider how we perceive, experience, and treat the later stages of life. The book examines the regimes, strategies, and treatment protocols deployed in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, using critical cultural theories to analyze how anti-aging technologies problematize the aging body as always-already diseased.
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Gerontological Hygiene
This concept draws parallels between societal anxieties around hygiene and our cultural obsession with anti-aging. Just as the hygiene movement sought to eliminate perceived threats like dirt and disease, 'gerontological hygiene' identifies and targets the 'problem' of aging itself through a vast array of technologies, practices, and ideologies.
The Medicalization of Aging
The book critiques the pervasive notion of aging as a disease state, highlighting how this perspective fuels a multi-billion dollar industry peddling solutions to a natural process. This medicalization impacts not only our physical health but also our self-perception, social interactions, and overall well-being as we age.
Biopolitics of Aging
Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault, Fletcher examines how power structures, institutions, and discourses influence our understanding and experience of aging bodies. He analyzes how these forces shape policies, practices, and perceptions, often marginalizing and controlling older populations.
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'Age as Disease' argues that society has wrongly medicalized the natural process of aging, framing it as something to be feared and eradicated. The book challenges this narrative and encourages readers to reconsider how they perceive and treat the later stages of life.
'Age as Disease' introduces the concept of 'gerontological hygiene,' which parallels societal anxieties around hygiene with the cultural obsession with anti-aging. The book explains how society's fear of aging drives the development and adoption of various anti-aging measures, treating aging as a problem to be solved.
David-Jack Fletcher employs critical cultural theories such as biopolitics, somatechnics, ethics, and governmentality to analyze how anti-aging technologies problematize the aging body. These theories help dissect the societal forces that shape our understanding of aging and the power dynamics that influence the lives of older individuals.
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