Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Science, technology and the 'ageing society' -- What is the 'ageing society'? -- Concerning science and technology in the 'ageing society' -- Structure of the book -- 2 Patching the science, technology and ageing conjunction -- Introduction -- Science, technology and ageing -- The nexus of ageing and technoscience -- 3 Assembling the 'ageing society' -- Ageing society at the turn of the twenty-first century -- Outline of a genealogy of the 'ageing society' -- Reinventing the ageing society -- Reimagining ageing -- 4 The 'ageing society' and its others -- Introduction -- Retracing the population problem -- Population and the eugenic 'agencement' of the liberal welfare state -- The 'ageing society' and the reconfiguration of productivity -- Vitality and the epidemiological transitions of the global society -- Conclusion -- 5 Re-quantifying age? -- Introduction -- Chronologising age -- Problematising chronological age -- Reimagining age measurement -- The 'biological age' controversy -- Conclusion -- 6 Individualising ageing? -- Introduction -- Establishing the BLSA -- Episode 1: Colloquium on Longitudinal Studies, 1965 -- Episode 2: Review of the Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1971 -- Episode 3: Review of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1978 -- Episode 4: Reassessment of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1987 -- Conclusion -- 7 Reworking ageing -- Introduction -- Implementing the economics of ageing -- Ageing and efficiency I -- Ageing and efficiency II -- The end and beginning of 'functional age' -- Conclusion -- 8 Caring for ageing -- Introduction -- Questioning old age care -- Conditioning 'old age' -- Caring for ageing with technology -- Conclusion -- 9 Biomedicalising ageing? -- Introduction -- Biomedicalisation of ageing