Ethics and Aging
The Right to Live, the Right to Die
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1988
- Category
- Gerontology, Geriatrics, Ethics
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774803106
- Publish Date
- Jan 1988
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774843133
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774803021
- Publish Date
- Jan 1988
- List Price
- $36.95
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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.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
James E. Thornton is the coordinator of the Committee on Gerontology, at the University of British Columbia. Earl R. Winkler is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia.
Editorial Reviews
An interesting collection of essays that should appeal especially to those involved in the provision of care for aged people, or in the analysis of social policy, or in the development of ethical concepts which seem relevant in the modern hospital environment.
Bioethics
A richness of insights that only an interdisciplinary approach can give.
Bioethic News
It is a very useful aid for professionals in gerontology or in social work, for ethicists, ministers of religion, and for all who are connected with the formation of our perceptions on this most valuable and often most neglected segment of our society.
Journal of Religious Gerontology