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Choosing who's to live : ethics and aging / edited by James W. Walters
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Edité par University of Illinois Press. Urbana - 1998
The population is rapidly aging while access to proper and affordable medical treatment is becoming more and more limited. This impasse challenges us to make ethical decisions regarding the rationing of health care. Arguing that de facto rationing is already taking place due to economic necessity and that proper management of this rationing is essential to the fair and ethical treatment of all seeking care, Choosing Who's to Live directly addresses one of the most challenging moral questions of our day
Introduction / James W. Walters. 1. The Justification and Implications of Age-Influenced Rationing / Paul T. Menzel. 2. Justice between the Young and the Old: Rationing from an International Perspective / Norman Daniels. 3. Is There a Place for Euthanasia in America's Care for Its Elderly? / Margaret P. Battin. 4. Caring for the Disabled Elderly: The Economics and Ethics of Financing Long-Term Care / Nancy S. Jecker. 5. Bioethics in a Disposal Society: Health Care and the Intergenerational Stake / Carroll L. Estes, Susan E. Kelly and Elizabeth A. Binney. 6. Why Now? The Growing Interest in Limiting the Lifesaving Health Care Resources Available to Elderly People / John F. Kilner.