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| Date: | 26.09.2008 to 28.09.2008 |
| Location: | Mainz Deutschland |
| Keywords: | Eugenics/Enhancement - Disease - Prolongation of life |
| Details: | With an ever growing proportion of elderly people in many Western societies and modern medicine promising to prolong life and well-being, the aging body has become an increasingly common image in current society. ?Anti-aging? has developed into a popular movement for promoting activity, mobility and life-style choice instead of conventionally held stereotypes of decline and decrepitude. Current theoretical contributions argue that the aging body cannot completely be reduced to culture and stand up for a materialistic deconstructionist perspective considering the elderly?s experiences and the interaction of mind, body and society. It is the meaning attached to gendered aging bodies by medical cultures that needs further investigation. We welcome colleagues from a variety of disciplines who are willing to discuss cross-disciplinary angles focussing on the meanings attached to, the knowledge produced of, and the processes inherent to gendered aging bodies in the past and in contemporary Western societies. We look forward to welcoming you to the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. |
| Organizer: | Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| Contact: | Frau Prof. Antje Kampf, PhD, M.A. Address: Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Am Pulverturm 13 55131 Mainz Tel: +49 - (0)6131 - 3 93 73 56 Fax: +49 - (0)6131 - 3 93 66 82 Email: antje.kampf@uni-mainz.de |
| Webpage: | http://www.aging-body.com/ |
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