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Pavadinimas: ETHICS & AGING
Autoriai: EDITED BY JAMES E. THORNTON AND EARL R. WINKLER
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ISBN: 0-77-480310-X
Brūkšninis kodas: 4202169
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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.

Acknowledgments vii
Contributors ix
1 Introduction to principal themes and issues 3
Earl R. Winkler and James E. Thornton
PART ONE: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
2 On reaching a new agenda: Self-determination and aging 16
Jane A. Boyajian
3 Ethics and aging: Trends and problems in the clinical setting 31
David Roy
4 Ethical aspects of aging: Justic, freedom, and responsibility 41
John C. Bennett
5 Paradigms of aging: Growth versus decline 54
James E. Birren and Candace A. Stacey
6 Cognitive intervention in later life: Philosophical issues 73
David F. Hultsch and Jane H. Mcewan
7 The calculus of discrimination:
Discriminatory resource allocation for an aging population 84
Eike-Henner W. Kluge
8 Population aging and the economy: Some issues in resource allocation 98
Frank T. Denton and Byron G. Spencer
PART TWO: SPECIFIC ISSUES
9 The right to participate: Ending discrimination against the elderly 127
Donald J. MacDougall
10 Society and essentials for well-being:
Social policy and the provision of care 142
Neena L. Chappell
11 Foregoing treatment: Killing versus letting die, and the issue of non-feeding 155
Earl R. Winkler
12 Foregoing life-sustaining treatment:
The Canadian Law Reform Commission and the president`s Commission 172
Alister Browne
13 Proxy consent for research on the incompetent elderly 183
Barry F. Brown
14 Gerontology`s challenge from its research population 194
Beverly Burnside
15 Civil liberties and the elderly patient 208
Arthur Schafer
16 Narrative, perspective, and aging 215
C.G. Prado
PART THREE
Bibliography 225
James E. Thornton, Anne D. Evans,
Megan Stuart-Stubbs, Gerry Bates
General index 247
Index of names 253