Anti-aging medicine: notes on a socio-technical controversy

After some decades of struggle, geriatrics and gerontology have become the legitimate sciences of aging. Today, their status is being questioned. In its short history, anti-aging medicine has taken root as a medical practice that questions how to address biological aging. In so doing, all medicine i...

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Published inHistória, ciências, saúde--Manguinhos Vol. 21; no. 4; p. 1361
Main Authors Leitão, Antônio Nogueira, Pedro, Rosa Maria Leite Ribeiro
Format Journal Article
LanguagePortuguese
Published Brazil 01.10.2014
Subjects
Aging
Brazil
Geriatrics - history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Medicine
Rejuvenation
United States
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Summary:After some decades of struggle, geriatrics and gerontology have become the legitimate sciences of aging. Today, their status is being questioned. In its short history, anti-aging medicine has taken root as a medical practice that questions how to address biological aging. In so doing, all medicine is questioned. Here, we explore in particular how this controversy is structured around the founding principles of the sciences of aging. Is there any basis for these questionings? How have they been treated by those who have received them? Taking a socio-technical viewpoint, it is worth considering that for geriatricians and gerontologists, the need to criticize anti-aging medicine also raises some important reflections about how the sciences of aging address their subject.
ISSN:1678-4758
DOI:10.1590/S0104-59702014005000021