Ethics, Health Policy and (Anti-) Aging: Mixed Blessings

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schermer, Maartje. (Editor), Pinxten, Wim. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Ethics and Health Policy, 1
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3870-6

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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 dont like old people
• Frans Meulenberg  Older peoples 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 Im..? 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. �.