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Miranda’s Story: Molecules, Populations and the Ageing Organism
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
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| Journal publication date | 12/2011 |
|---|---|
| Journal | History of the Human Sciences |
| Journal number | 5 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Early online date | 18/08/11 |
| Original language | English |
Abstract
Biomedicine is today transforming the human condition, but how such transformation is to be understood is a matter of debate. I seek to contribute to the debate by focusing on recent developments within a relatively novel subfield of gerontology which is engaged in the bio-molecular and bio-demographic characterization of the processes associated with the development of the organism from birth to death. I argue that these developments aid understanding of the conceptual difficulties confronting neo-Darwinian biological thought and poststructuralist social theory as one decentres the organism and the other the subject.
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Ageing and Biomedicine
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