Ethics, aging, and society : the critical turn / / Martha B. Holstein, Jennifer A. Parks, Mark H. Waymack.

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxii, 298 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ethics and aging : challenges to the received view
  • The "critical turn" : alternative approaches to thinking about ethics
  • Aging and the aged body
  • The "third age" : cultural ideals, ethics, and the myth of agelessness
  • Anti-aging medicine
  • Aging and public policy : a normative foundation
  • Care and justice : older people at home
  • The nursing home : beyond medicalization
  • Working with clients and patients
  • What do we do now? abuse, neglect, and self-neglect
  • Alzheimer's disease and an ethics of solidarity
  • Beyond rational control : caring at the end of life
  • Aging and disasters : facing natural and other disasters
  • Bringing it all together.