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Facing Limits: Ethics And Health Care For The Elderly de Gerald R. Winslow

Facing Limits: Ethics And Health Care For The Elderly

Editat de Gerald R. Winslow
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2020
Advances in medical technology and the rapidly increasing population of older Americans are causing people to question the ethical limits of life-extending interventions. How do we weigh issues involving equity, efficiency, autonomy, natural life span, and responsibility for the financial burdens of health care for the elderly? In this collection o
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367157722
ISBN-10: 0367157721
Pagini: 334
Dimensiuni: 152 x 225 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface -- Proposals to Limit Care -- Intolerable Necessity: Limiting Health Care for the Elderly -- Intergenerational Equity in an Age of Limits: Confessions of of a Prodigal Parent -- Philosphical Foundations -- A Philosophy of Finitude: Ethics and the Humanities in the Allocation of Resources -- Ethical Options in the Care of the Elderly -- Natural Life-Span and Natural Law Ethics -- Clinical Perspectives -- Surrogate Decisions for Nursing Home Residents -- The Appropriateness of Life-Sustaining Care for Older People -- Can We Set Limits and Enhance Autonomy? -- Economics and Public Policy -- Is Global Budgeting the Way to Set Limits on Health Care for the Elderly? -- Counting the Costs of Lifesaving Interventions for the Elderly -- Cost Containment and Conflicts of Interest in the Care of the Elderly -- Changing the Debate About Health Care for the Elderly -- Gender, Equity, and Distributive Justice -- Achieving Equity and Setting Limits: The Importance of Gender -- Ageism, Sexism, and Health Care: Why We Need Old Women in Power -- How Age Should Matter: Justice as the Basis for Limiting Care to the Elderly -- Exceptions and the Elderly -- Personal Autonomy and Social Responsibility -- Personal Choice and Public Rationing -- Imposing Limits or Changing Attitudes: Strategies for Change -- Old Age and Euthanasia: A Theological and Personal Perspective -- Ethics and Aging: Callahan and Beyond

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In this collection of essays, leaders in the fields of ethics, medicine, nusing, economics and public policy explore the pressing issues of providing health care for the elderly.