Moreira Tiago - Science, Technology and the Ageing Society

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Tiago Moreira

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Terry Leahy

The idea for this book was developed during a sabbatical research period hosted by the Centre for Healthy Ageing (CEHA), Copenhagen University in 2012, particularly during long walks and short bicycle rides between Christianshavn, Amagerbro, Amager Strand and Islands Brygge. I thank NORDEA Fonden for generously supporting my sabbatical, and my collaboration with CEHA since 2012. I am grateful to the members of CEHAs Health Innovation and Promotion Research Theme for their enthusiasm and critical engagement with my ideas and research, and in particular to Michael Andersen, Amy Clotworthy, Astrid Pernille Jespersen, Aske Juul Lassen, Lene Otto, Marie Haulund Otto and Thomas Sderqvist. I also thank Lene Juel Rasmussen, CEHAs Director, for enabling and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in CEHA, and for including me in this.

As will be clear in the book itself, this books outlook is inspired by the work of John Law and Annemarie Mol. Having had the privilege of working with both, their impact on my work has been more than conceptual or methodological. John was a generous and supportive doctoral supervisor and has continued to offer intellectual guidance and advice since then. He has been a moral and professional example. Annemarie was my unofficial doctoral supervisor and has continued to challenge my ways of thinking and writing until today. I am a better thinker and writer for it.

I owe my introduction to the sciences of ageing to Tom Kirkwood. Through his singular vision and knowledge, Tom led directly to my interest in the role of science and technology in the ageing society. In the long generation and development of this book, Tom has been at times a collaborator, an informant, a critical reader and a sponsor.

Many of the ideas presented in this book were developed with or alongside Paolo Palladino. He has consistently pushed me to question the way the past and the future and truth and hope figure in the stories we tell about the role of science and technology in the ageing society. At times our continuing conversations about ageing and death have been the pretext for more important discussions on landscapes, food, animals, or walking paths, but that is the way it should be.

The book has also benefitted from discussions however small with a variety of people about ageing: John Bond, Katie Brittain, Alberto Cambrosio, Michel Callon, Annie L. Cot, Tomas Sanchez Criado, Miguel Domnech, Jean Paul Gaudillire, Daniel Lopez Gomez, Claes-Friedrich Helgesson, Sam Hillyard, Julian Hughes, Stephen Katz, Joanna Latimer, Francis Lee, Thomas C. Leonard, Carl May, Robert McCrae, Ian McKeith, Richard Miller, Richard Milne, Maggie Mort, Ingunn Moser, Joo Passos, Martyn Pickersgill, Jeanette Pols, Vololona Rabeharisoa, Tim Rapley, Suresh Rattan, Jean-Marie Robine, Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Michael Schillmeier, Steve Sturdy, Bryan Turner, Kate Weiner, Rudi Westendorp, Catherine Will, Duncan Wilson, Andrew Webster, Miriam Winance and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak.

Particular chapters or parts of the book have gained from the insightful reading and comments of a few people: Geoff Bowker, Lawrence Busch, Michaela Fay, Neil Jenkings, Fadhila Manzaderani, Barbara Marshal, Annemarie Mol, Paolo Palladino, Hyung Wook Park, Richard Sprott and John Vincent. Arguments and sections of the book were presented in a variety of academic forums: British Gerontology Society Annual Conference 2015; British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2013; Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies Copenhagen University; Durham University Department of Anthropology; Edinburgh University School of Social and Political Sciences; Kent University School of Sociology and Social Policy; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Manchester University Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Centre de Recherche Mdicale et Sanitaire at Paris University; Sheffield University Department of Sociological Studies; Society for the Social Study of Science Annual Conference 2012 and 2014.