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Technogenarians is timely volume about the devices, spaces, and medicines, which 'technogenarians' use as they negotiate health and illness in everyday life. (Sociology of Health & Illness, 2011)

Technogenarians is timely volume about the devices, spaces, and medicines, which ?technogenarians' use as they negotiate health and illness in everyday life. (Sociology of Health & Illness, 2011)

Technogenarians is timely volume about the devices, spaces, andmedicines, which technogenarians' use as they negotiatehealth and illness in everyday life. (Sociology of Health &Illness, 2011)

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Kelly Joyce is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of William and Mary. Her research on technology, science, and health has been published in Science as Culture, Social Studies of Science, and other academic journals. Dr Joyce’s book Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency (2008) offers a sociological exploration of magnetic resonance imaging technology. Her current research examines medical knowledge about, and the experiences of people who live with, autoimmune illnesses. Meika Loe is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Colgate University in New York. Her critical scholarship on culture, age, medicine, technology, and gender has appeared in a range of academic journals including Contexts, Gender & Society, Feminism & Psychology, Symbolic Interaction, Sexualities, and Sociological Inquiry. She is the author of The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America (2004), and a forthcoming book on the oldest old in America.

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