Slowing down decay: biological clocks in personalized medicine

This article discusses so-called biological clocks. These technologies, based on aging biomarkers, trace and measure molecular changes in order to monitor individuals' “true” biological age against their chronological age. Drawing on the concept of decay, and building on ethnographic fieldwork...

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Main Authors: Clémence Pinel, Sara Green, Mette N. Svendsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Sociology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1111071/full