Framing Ageing as a Medical Problem: Public Discourses on Older Adults, Health Risks and Tecnoscientific Solutions in the UK and Italy
This work aims at contributing to the debate around the social representations of ageing, here by considering the theory of “biomedicalisation of ageing”, for which getting older is transformed into a medical problem with specific health risks that can be treated thanks to the help of technoscientif...
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| Main Authors: | Francesco Miele, Federico Neresini, Emanuele Di Buccio |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Bologna – Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Tecnoscienza |
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| Online Access: | https://tecnoscienza.unibo.it/article/view/19349 |
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