title: [Anti-aging medicine: notes on a socio-technical controversy].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Antônio Nogueira
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Leitão
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
authors.forename: Rosa Maria Leite Ribeiro
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Pedro
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D001938:Brazil; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D012060:Rejuvenation; D014481:United States