Ethics, Health Policy and (Anti-) Aging: Mixed Blessings

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schermer, Maartje (Editor), Pinxten, Wim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Ethics and Health Policy, 1
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Health promotion.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

This volume is about the ethical and philosophical issues that arise in an aging society, and the implications of these issues for healthcare- and social policy.  After a brief overview of biomedicine's changing approach of ageing and longevity and of the new expectations that these changes gen...