Description |
xiv, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Intolerable necessity : limiting health care for the elderly / Daniel Callahan -- Intergenerational equity in an age of limits : confessions of a prodigal parent / Richard D. Lamm -- A philosophy of finitude : ethics and the humanities in the allocation of resources / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Ethical options in the care of the elderly / J. Wesley Robb -- Neutral life-span and natural law ethics / Anthony Battaglia -- Surrogate decisions for nursing home residents / Jeanie Kayser-Jones -- The appropriateness of life-sustaining care for older people / Donald J. Murphy -- Can we set limits and enhance autonomy? / Lawrence J. Schneiderman -- Is global budgeting the way to set limits on health care for the elderly? / Michael D. Reagan -- Counting the costs of lifesaving interventions for the elderly / Paul T. Menzel -- Cost containment and conflicts of interest in the care of the elderly / Charles E. Begley. |
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Changing the debate about health care for the elderly / Edward L. Schneider -- Achieving equity and setting limits : the importance of gender / Bethany Spielman -- Ageism, sexism, and health care : why we need old women in power / Emily Erwin Culpepper -- How age should matter : justice as the basis for limiting care to the elderly / Robert W. Veatch -- Exceptions and the elderly / Gerald R. Winslow -- Personal choice and public rationing / Judith Wilson Ross -- Imposing limits or changing attitudes : strategies for change / Marilyn Moon -- Old age and euthanasia : a theological and personal perspective / John C. Bennett -- Ethics and aging : Callahan and beyond / James W. Walters. |
Subject |
Older people -- Medical care -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medical care, Cost of
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Right to health.
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Added Author |
Winslow, Gerald R.
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Walters, James W. (James William), 1945-
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ISBN |
0813385040(alk. paper) |
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