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The first four chapters probe the consequences of perhaps the more obvious institutions, such as missionaries, formal education, biomedicine and legislative bodies.
Nevertheless, as we are reminded in this book, contemporary understandings of later life continue to be informed by biomedicine and welfare problematisations.
The movement toward international debate regarding ethics and biomedicine must continue, even though consensus on issues may not always be feasible.
Once this negotiation and reconnection have been mastered, there is further mediation as biomedicine reaches its limits and the move into palliative care is made.
Finally, biomedicine may enjoy stronger public support if it responds to growing social concern about animal welfare with a very serious investment in nonanimal methods.
Clearly, animal advocates will have many disagreements with biomedicine over when it is appropriate to conduct animal research.
Chapter 6 provides a devastating assessment of the role of biomedicine in the social construction of old age.
This is particularly true of the early chapters, in which the text about the nature of biomedicine is both incoherent and repetitive.
