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     This book is an important and timely look at issues of ethics in aging. It reflects the complexity of these questions, but develops them in relation to a single general theme: that of the involvement of the elderly in the design of social policy and the research which affets them.
     Moral problems involving the elderly are many-faceted. Accurate understanding and social response demand some integration of experience, sensibility, and knowledge provided by different perspectives. Ethics and aging incorporates viewpoints from gerontology, philosophy, law, theology, sociology, psychology, medicine, nursing, and economics.

     "This is a work of compass, depth, breadth, and philosophical power. It confronts the moral diversity that reveals feminism in the plural, successfully exploring the issues and confronting the practical challenges with which we are left." — H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University, author of The Foundations of Bioethics....

     "This book isn't only about rights, it is also about thinking about rights. Thomson shows us, with elegance and wit, how to do this sort of work: what philosophical argument is, how one shapes an argument and makes it stick, and why the enterprise is so engaging." - Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

     The revised edition of this popular book includes an expanded introduction and eight new cases; these deal with such important issues as AIDS, fetal tissue transplants, the rights of male partners in abortion decisions, anencephalic infants as organ donors, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. Also include at the end of the book are ten new unanalyzed cases, allowing readers to test their own skills in handling ethical conflicts in medicine without the promptings of the authors.