Ethics and Aging

This book is an important and timely look at issues of ethics in aging.It reflects the complexity of these questions, but develops them inrelation to a single general theme: that of the involvement of theelderly in the design of social policy and the research which affectsthem. Moral problems involving the elderly are many-faceted. Accurateunderstanding and social response demand some integration ofexperience, sensibility, and knowledge provided by differentperspectives. Ethics and Aging incorporates viewpoints fromgerontology, philosophy, law, theology, sociology, psychology,medicine, nursing, and economics.