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Ending Midlife Bias: New Values for Old Age

Autor Nancy S. Jecker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 iun 2020
We live at a time when the human lifespan has increased like never before. As average lifespans stretch to new lengths, what impact should this have on our values? Should our values change over the course of our ever-increasing lifespans? Nancy S. Jecker coins the term, the life stage relativity of values, to capture the idea that at different stages of our lives, different ethical concerns shift to the foreground. During early life, infants and small children hold dear the value of being cared for and nurtured by someone they trust--and their vulnerability and dependency make these the right values for them. By early adulthood and continuing into midlife, the capacity for greater physical and emotional independence gives people reason to place more emphasis on autonomy and the ability to freely choose and carry out their plan of life. During old age, heightened risk for chronic disease and disability gives us a reason to shift our focus again, emphasizing safeguarding our central capabilities and keeping our dignity and self-respect intact.Despite different values becoming central at different stages of life, we often assume the standpoint of someone in midlife, who is in the midst of planning a future adulthood that stretches out before them. Jecker coins the term, midlife bias, to refer to the privileging of midlife. Midlife bias occurs when we assume that autonomy should be our central aim at all life stages and give it priority in a wide range of ethical decisions. The privileging of midlife raises fundamental problems of fairness. It also suggests the possibility of large gaps in the ethical principles and theories at hand. Ending Midlife Bias: New Values for Old Age addresses these concerns in a step-wise fashion, focusing on later life. Jecker first introduces a philosophical framework that extends moral theorizing to older adults, addressing midlife bias, the life stage relativity of values, human capabilities and dignity, time's passage, the narrative self, and justice between old and young. She then turns to policy and practice and explores ethical issues in bioethics, long term care, personal robotic assistants, care of the dying and newly dead, ageism in medical research, the allocation of healthcare, mandatory retirement, and the future of population aging.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190949075
ISBN-10: 0190949074
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 236 x 163 x 31 mm
Greutate: 1 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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The book is clearly written, thoroughly referenced, historically grounded, and thought provoking. Jecker's text will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in bioethics or aging who is willing to question the dominance customarily given to autonomy across the life-span. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers.
Jecker...provides an in-depth, scholarly analysis of Western bioethics values considered across the life-span, but the emphasis is on old age. Jecker's main argument is that values other than autonomy should be given more weight in stages other than midlife, and that failure to do so harms individuals and societies...The author builds her arguments logically, anticipating objections and systematically addressing them with ethical humility. The book is clearly written, thoroughly referenced, historically grounded, and thought provoking. Jecker's text will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in bioethics or aging who is willing to question the dominance customarily given to autonomy across the life-span... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers.
The first 50 years of American bioethics focused attention on autonomy in relation to suffering, medical technology, and the end of life. Yet the long last stage of life
Ending Midlife Bias is a unique, precisely argued, and compelling book which challenges the notion that the values of midlife are the measure of a good life. Readers have much to learn from Jecker's original conception of justice between generations and the moral principles that support it. A superb piece of scholarship with practical implications for everyday life.
A comprehensive, highly readable examination of how different stages of life require different ethical analysis. Jecker's defense of often controversial claims is intriguing.
Ending Midlife Bias is ambitious. It seeks to reshape basic assumptions in how we approach bioethics. I think it is a valuable read at two levels. On an individual level, it's food for thought. Readers are left to contemplate their biases and re-assess how they think about life itself including their own roles in an ongoing story. At a scholarly level, it confronts institutions and ethics councils with deeply ingrained biases that, if her critique is correct, corrupt even the most basic principles of bioethics...But Jecker may convince them that the fact that our values change over time has massive ethical significance. And that power makes Ending Midlife Bias a read worthy of our attention.

Notă biografică

Nancy S. Jecker is a Professor of bioethics and philosophy at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Bioethics and Humanities. She holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Johannesburg, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, and past visiting professorships at the National University of Singapore Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Centre for Bioethics. She is a three-time Rockefeller Foundation awardee, two-time National Endowment for the Humanities awardee, Brocher Foundation Visiting Researcher, and Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science International Fellow. Dr. Jecker was elected to the board of directors for the International Association of Bioethics (2019-2021) and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (2017-2019).