Planning Later Life : Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies Hardback
Edited by Mark Schweda, Larissa Pfaller, Kai Brauer, Frank Adloff, Silke Schicktanz
Part of the Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy series
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This book examines the relevance of modern medicine and healthcare in shaping the lives of elderly persons and the practices and institutions of ageing societies.
Combining individual and social dimensions, Planning Later Life discusses the ethical, social, and political consequences of increasing life expectancies and demographic change in the context of biomedicine and public health.
By focusing on the field of biomedicine and healthcare, the authors engage readers in a dialogue on the ethical and social implications of recent trends in dementia research and care, advance healthcare planning, or the rise of anti-ageing medicine and prevention.
Bringing together the largely separated debates of individualist bioethics on the one hand, and public health ethics on the other, the volume deliberately considers the entanglements of envisioning, evaluating, and controlling individual and societal futures.
So far, the process of devising and exploring the various positive and negative visions and strategies related to later life has rarely been reflected systematically from a philosophical, sociological, and ethical point of view.
As such, this book will be crucial to those working and studying in the life sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences, particularly in the areas of bioethics, social work, gerontology and aging studies, healthcare and social service, sociology, social policy, and geography and population studies.
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- Pages:264 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/07/2017
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/07/2017
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- ISBN:9781472481320