Ethics, Aging, and Society: The Critical Turn - Softcover

Holstein, Martha B. PhD; Parks, Jennifer A.; Waymack, Mark H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826116345 ISBN 13: 9780826116345

Verlag: Springer Publishing Company, 2010

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"Ethics, Aging and Society...is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies in aging and ethics...This well-organized volume begins theoretically and offers new ways of thinking about ethics that can handle the complexities and realities of aging in particular social contexts."--Choice

"This new research-based book, by experts in the field of ethics, is excellent and much-needed...I challenge you to consider reading this book and seeing all the ways in which you might be forced to rethink things that most of us take as given for ethics and aging. I know you will not be disappointed and I guarantee you will end up thinking long and hard about personal and professional decisions you may have made as well as your assumptions about aging in America."--CFLE Network Newsletter (National Council on Family Relations)

"This is a book that should be required reading for all involved in the ethical provision of services to the aging on any level, as well as for policy makers and administrators in positions of influence over the lives of older patients."--PsycCRITIQUES

"...the authors' application of feminist ethics to frail elders rings true to both my clinical experience working with frail elders, and my research experience trying to understand their quality of life concerns...there were true gems of ideas [in this book] that illuminated the limitations of the dominant paradigm of autonomy in bioethics. [The authors] make a compelling critique of end-of-life care."--GeriPal: A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog

This book presents second generation issues in ethics, aging, and society by presenting critical outcomes that arise when ethics is applied to the practical concerns that occur in day-to-day elder care. The first volume in over 10 years to address ethics and gerontology, it is unparalleled in its comprehensiveness and integration of well-developed philosophical arguments with empirical research, humanistic scholarship, and insights gained from practical experience.

This book challenges the tried and true approaches to ethical issues in aging and opens avenues for creative problem-solving. The authors' diverse backgrounds bring the advantages of both interdisciplinary scholarship and practical experience to this comprehensive textbook. It is an essential resource for those interested in, and working with, older people, from upper-level undergraduate students and graduate-division students, to gerontology practitioners in training.

Key Features:

• Presents the first major work in over 10 years to integrate the disciplines of ethics and aging
• Includes case studies derived from day-to-day practice
• Addresses individual/clinical ethics in health and long-term care and ethical issues raised by public policy, cultural norms and social attitudes
• Examines such critical issues as Alzheimer's disease, long-term care, ageism, public policy, anti-aging medicine, elder abuse, and natural disasters
• Explores new directions in ethical and social philosophy as they pertain to gerontology and care

Biografía del autor:

Martha B. Holstein, PhD, is an Associate for Research at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics in Chicago, where her focus is applied ethics in health care and other settings. She holds a PhD from the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch and was formerly on the staff of the Hastings Center, Associate Director of the American Society of Aging, and a planner for the San Francisco Commission on Aging. For much of her work life, she has been interested in the bridge between theory and practice; for the past fifteen years this effort has focused on ethics, especially in the area of aging. She has been involved in aging-related issues since 1973 and believes that ""doing"" ethics is an evolving skill that starts from one's values and stance in the world but does not end there. She also believes that ethical analysis is an engaged enterprise; to try to affect background conditions that help create many problems is the task of the ethicist as citizen. Dr. Holstein writes, teaches, lectures, and conducts training on the subject of ethics and aging.||Mark H. Waymack, Ph.D, is Associate Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Programs in Health Care Ethics in the Philosophy Department of Loyola University Chicago. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Loyola University's Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Policy, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor in Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, in the Program for Medical Humanities and Bioethics. He is the co-author, with George Taler, MD, of Medical Ethics and the Elderly (1988), and the author of numerous articles in bioethics, ethics and aging, and the history of ethics. He has been an active member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities as well as the American Society for Aging.

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• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0826116345
• ISBN 13: 9780826116345
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322