The Politics of Life Itself

Rose, Nikolas

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“…Key factors here include the aforementioned growth of sleep medicine in recent decades; the wider efforts of sleep experts within and beyond sleep medicine to raise the profile of sleep as a significant public health and safety issue or 'matter of concern' (Dement & Vaughan, 1999;Wolf-Meyer, 2008); industry interests in the sleep drugs, devices and diagnostics markets (Alexander, 2009); multiple media framings of sleep matters over time (Seale, Boden, Williams, Lowe, & Steinberg, 2007;Williams et al, 2008); and finally, the associated growth of more active forms of consumerism and citizenship, personhood and patienthood (Rose, 2007;Williams, 2011).…”

Section: Problematisation/medicalisation? Sleep Health and Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medicalisation or customisation? Sleep, enterprise and enhancement in the 24/7 society

Williams

Coveney

Gabe

2013

Social Science & Medicine

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Section: Problematisation/medicalisation? Sleep Health and Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medicalisation or customisation? Sleep, enterprise and enhancement in the 24/7 society

Williams

Coveney

Gabe

2013

Social Science & Medicine

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“…As one older woman in our study shared, ''computers are a terrible time waster; they keep me away from things that I value more.'' It may be that our own culturally shaped pursuit of information and our regular self-monitoring of body, brain and behaviour (Rose 2001) will regrettably divert us from attending to the very meaning of life as we face its final chapter.…”

Section: Future Considerations: Emergent Ethical Questions In Monitormentioning

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Ethical frontiers of ICT and older users: cultural, pragmatic and ethical issues

McLean

2011

Ethics Inf Technol

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The reality of an ageing Europe has called attention to the importance of e-inclusion for a growing population of senior citizens. For some, this may mean closing the digital divide by providing access and support to technologies that increase citizen participation; for others, e-inclusion means access to assistive technologies to facilitate and extend their living independently. These initiatives address a social need and provide economic opportunities for European industry. While undoubtedly desirable, and supported by European Union initiatives, several cultural assumptions or issues related to the initiatives could benefit from fuller examination, as could their practical and ethical implications. This paper begins to consider these theoretical and practical concerns. The first part of the paper examines cultural issues and assumptions relevant to adopting e-technologies, and the ethical principles applied to them. These include (1) the persistence of ageism, even in e-inclusion; (2) different approaches to, and implications of independent living; and(3) the values associated with different ethical principles, given their implications for accountability to older users. The paper then discusses practical issues and ethical concerns that have been raised by the use of smart home and monitoring technologies with older persons. Understanding these assumptions and their implications will allow for more informed choices in promoting ethical application of e-solutions for older persons.

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“…Challenging the dominance of definitions of old age based on medical criteria also involves challenging the biologisation of old age (cf. Rose 2001Rose , 2007Moreira and Palladino 2008). What is understood as health has changed across cultures and through history, particularly through differing notions of disease.…”

Section: Who Can Be In Favour Of Death and Disease?mentioning

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Ageing, Anti-ageing, and Anti-anti-ageing: Who are the Progressives in the Debate on the Future of Human Biological Ageing?

Vincent

2009

Medicine Studies

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This paper provides both an overview of and a personal perspective on the field of 'antiageing'. In the late 20th century, progress in the science of ageing re-invigorated activity designed to avoid biological ageing. For some the objective was to abolish the need to die of old age. This anti-ageing movement includes a diverse range of people: hard scientists working in well-funded and established university laboratories, slick corporate-marketing executives and new-age entrepreneurs selling herbal elixirs. The movement has attracted anti-anti-ageing critical comment from three sources: moral critique located in philosophy and religion, scepticism from established scientists in the field of biology and gerontology, and challenge from critical social gerontology. Anti-ageing activists have labelled their critics as 'conservative' for opposing the inevitable progress of science. The paper argues that the alternative perspective, which sees the anti-ageing movement as a route by which a biologisation of old age inhibits people from achieving a culturally valued final part to life, is the progressive one.

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The Politics of Life Itself

Cited by 218 publications

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Medicalisation or customisation? Sleep, enterprise and enhancement in the 24/7 society

Medicalisation or customisation? Sleep, enterprise and enhancement in the 24/7 society

Ethical frontiers of ICT and older users: cultural, pragmatic and ethical issues

Ageing, Anti-ageing, and Anti-anti-ageing: Who are the Progressives in the Debate on the Future of Human Biological Ageing?

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