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Social Science Gerontology

Ethics and Aging

The Right to Live, the Right to Die

edited by James E. Thornton & Earl R. Winkler

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1988
Category
Gerontology, Geriatrics, Ethics
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774803106
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774843133
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $34.95
  • 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