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

Abstract

Includes indexes. Introduction to principal themes and issues / Earl R. Winkler and James E. Thornton -- Part one : General perspectives -- On reaching a new agenda : self-determination and aging / Jane A. Boyajian -- Ethics and aging : trends and problems in the clinical setting / David Roy -- Ethical aspects of aging : justice, freedom, and responsibility / John C. Bennett -- Paradigms of aging : growth versus decline / James E. Birren and Candace A. Stacey -- Cognitive intervention in later life : philosophical issues / David F. Hultsch and Jane H. McEwan -- The calculus of discrimination : discriminatory resource allocation for an aging population / Eike-Henner W. Kluge -- Population aging and the economy : some issues in resource allocation / Frank T. Denton and Byron G. Spencer -- Part two : Specific issues -- The right to participate : ending discrimination against the elderly / Donald J. MacDougall -- Society and essentials for well-being : social policy and the provision of care / Neena L. Chappell -- Foregoing treatment : killing versus letting die, and the issue of non-feeding / Earl R. Winkler -- Foregoing life-sustaining treatment : the Canadian Law Reform Commission and the President's Commission / Alister Browne -- Proxy consent for research on the incompetent elderly / Barry F. Brown -- Gerontology's challenge from its research population / Beverly Burnside -- Civil liberties and the elderly patient / Arthur Schafer -- Narrative, perpsective, and aging / C.G. Prado.