The Cult of Youth : Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1108484158
ISBN-13
9781108484152
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 19th, 2020
Print length
262 Pages
Weight
508 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 16.00 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historyMedical professionHistory of medicine
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This study engages with histories of modern Britain, as well as science, technology, medicine, gender, and advertising to examine how anti-ageing became part of mainstream culture. It connects scientific and medical theories of how the body works and ages with the commercial world of anti-ageing products and procedures.
In this major new study, James F. Stark provides the first historical account of the most dominant ideas, practices, and material cultures associated with anti-ageing and rejuvenation in modern Britain. With a focus on the interwar period, his study uncovers the role of the commercial world in influencing attitudes towards ageing and youth. Stark argues that the technologies of anti-ageing, their commercialisation and their consumption made rejuvenation a possible and desirable aim in a period of socio-political instability, mechanised conflict and extending lifespans. Ultimately, Stark offers an innovative historical account, which draws together bodies, gender, science, medicine, advertising, and ageing, and shows how the quest for youth was transformed by social anxieties about an ageing population and economic crisis.
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