Ethics in an Aging Society
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 9, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801853975
Subjects: Ethical issues & debates; Medical ethics; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness; Gerontology; Health Care Delivery; Medical / Ethics
First sentence: The growing interest in questions of ethics and aging in recent years has been stimulated by two broad trends: advances in medical technology that have led to dilemmas of clinical bioethics (for example, decisions surrounding death and dying); and the coming of an aging society with rising numbers of dependent elderly people whose care raises far-reaching questions of social policy.