Aging and Ethics
Aging and Ethics explores the many urgent ethical issues involving the elderly, their care, and their role in society that have only recently come to the fore. There are now eight times more Americans over the age of sixty-five than at the turn of this century; their proportion to the rest of the population has almost tripled. This aging of society is expected to accelerate into the next century, and raises an increasing number of deep and troubling questions: What are our responsibilities...
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Aging and Ethics explores the many ethical issues involving the elderly, their care, and their role in society-urgent concerns that have only recently come to the forefront.There are now eight times more Americans over the age of sixty-five than at the turn of this century; their proportion to the rest of the population has almost tripled. And this trend is expected to accelerate into the next century!This aging of society has raised an increasing number of deep and troubling questions: • What are our responsibilities toward aging family members? • What can we reasonably expect in our own old age? • What special role (if any) do older persons play in our society? • How can medical resources be distributed justly between generations? • How can institutions that serve the elderly preserve values such as autonomy, self-respect, and dignity?Nancy Jecker's timely new volume deals with these and other issues on four levels: the aging individual; aging and filial responsibility; distributive justice in an aging society; and philosophical reflections on aging and death.Aging and Ethics is must reading for professionals in a variety of health-related and counseling fields, as well as for the growing number of concerned laypeople who need to better understand the often compelling issues associated with aging today. Booknews Twenty thoughtful and thought-provoking essays are grouped into four sections on the aging individual, aging and filial responsibility, distributive justice in an aging society, and philosophical reflections on aging and death. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceContributorsIntroduction1The Aging IndividualThe Meaning of Life3The Meaning of Life in Old Age51Oedipus and the Meaning of Aging: Personal Reflections and Historical Perspectives93Recovering the Body in Aging113Aging and Filial ResponsibilityThe Aging Society as a Context for Family Life123What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?147Families as Caregivers: The Limits of Morality155Health Care and Decision Making171Rethinking Family Loyalties187The Role of Intimate Others in Medical Decision Making199Distributive Justice in an Aging SocietyLimiting Health Care for the Old219A Lifespan Approach to Health Care227Old Age and the Rationing of Scarce Health Care Resources247Appeals to Nature in Theories of Age-Group Justice269Paying the Real Costs of Lifesaving285Intent and Actuality: Sacrificing the Old and Other Health Care Goals307Philosophical Reflections on Aging and DeathResentment and the Rights of the Elderly341Ancient Myth and Modern Medicine: Lessons from Baucis and Philemon353The Meaning of Temporality in Old Age367The Absurd375Index389
\ BooknewsTwenty thoughtful and thought-provoking essays are grouped into four sections on the aging individual, aging and filial responsibility, distributive justice in an aging society, and philosophical reflections on aging and death. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
