Ethics and Aging: The Right to Live, the Right to Die

Ethics and Aging: The Right to Live, the Right to Die
ISBN-10
0774844248
ISBN-13
9780774844246
Category
Social Science
Pages
270
Language
English
Published
2011-11-01
Publisher
UBC Press
Authors
James Edward Thornton, Earl Raye Winkler

Description

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 affects 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.

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