Ethics, Health Policy and (Anti-) Aging: Mixed Blessings
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...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Σειρά: | Ethics and Health Policy,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Schermer and Pinxten – Introduction
- I. Science of on ageing and longevity
- Wim Pinxten; Scientists expectations of (anti-) aging research
- Joao De Magalhaes – Pertintent ethical issues in the genomics of ageing
- II. Images of age and ageing
- Soren Holm; Ecce Homo: the implicit anthropology of bioethics and the aging person
- Wim Dekkers; An anthropology of the aging person
- John Vincent; The anti-aging movement: contemporary cultures and the social construction of old age
- Bert Keizer; Why we don’t like old people
- Frans Meulenberg – Older people’s own views on age and aging
- III Ethics in care for elderly
- Cees Hertogh; Ethics and frail eldery
- Frits de Lange; Imagining good aging
- Govert den Hartogh - Death wishes of the elderly
- Dorothea Touwen; Former wishes and current desires – demented patients and their family
- members’ effort to decide what they would have wanted
- Anders Schinkel; Justice and the elderly
- IV Ethics and prolongevity
- John Harris; Enhancement: longevity/immortality?
- Hans van Delden; On the value of being mortal
- Inez de Beaufort; Will you still love me when I’m..? On beauty and aging
- Maartje Schermer; Old age is an incurable disease – or is it?
- Marianne Boenink; On shifting disease concepts and molecular medicine
- Hans Joerg Ehni; Life extension for all
- Struijs, Ten Have, Willems; Healthy aging and personal responsibility
- V Ethics in an aging society: policy implications
- Goran Hermeren; Policy implications of views expressed in this volume. .
