| 'Healthy Ageing' policies and anti-ageing ideologies and practices: on the exercise of responsibility. | |
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PMID: 18379897 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This paper explores how the exercise of the ethics of 'responsibility' for health care advanced through 'healthy ageing' and 'successful ageing' narratives in Western countries animates an array of 'authorities', including the 'anti-ageing medicine' movement as a strategy to address the anxieties of growing old in Western societies and as a tool to exercise the ethos of 'responsibility'. The choice of this type of authority as a source of guidance for self-constitution and the exercise of the 'responsible self', this paper will argue, enables the enactment of a type of late modernity notion of citizenship for ageing individuals based on principles of agelessness, health, independence and consumption power. Through interviews with anti-ageing consumers, however, it is also possible to argue the existence of tensions and contradictions that such a rigid model of self-constitution in later life produces, and the potential forms of resistance and contestations that may emerge as a result. In this way the current 'war on anti-ageing medicine' (Vincent 2003) becomes also symptomatic of bigger 'wars' taking place not only between institutions competing for control over knowledge and management of ageing, but between those in favour and against the homogenisation of life under the language of universal science, reason and market rationality. |
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Authors:
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Beatriz Cardona |
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Type: Journal Article; Review Date: 2008-04-01 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Medicine, health care, and philosophy Volume: 11 ISSN: 1386-7423 ISO Abbreviation: Med Health Care Philos Publication Date: 2008 Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-12-16 Completed Date: 2009-03-05 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9815900 Medline TA: Med Health Care Philos Country: Netherlands |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 475-83 Citation Subset: E; IM |
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Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Locked bag 1797, Penrith South DC, Australia. b.cardona@uws.edu.au |
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Aging* Complementary Therapies / classification*, utilization* Health Policy* Health Status Humans Self Medication Sociology, Medical* |
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