Facing limits : ethics and health care for the elderly / edited by Gerald R. Winslow and James W. Walters.
1993
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Title
Facing limits : ethics and health care for the elderly / edited by Gerald R. Winslow and James W. Walters.
Published
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [1993]
Copyright
©1993
Call Number
RA564.8 .F333 1993
ISBN
0813385040
Description
xiv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25368146
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Record Appears in
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Pt. I
Proposals to Limit Care
1Intolerable Necessity: Limiting Health Care for the Elderly / Daniel Callahan
3
2Intergenerational Equity in an Age of Limits: Confessions of a Prodigal Parent / Richard D. Lamm
15
Pt. II
Philosophical Foundations
3A Philosophy of Finitude: Ethics and the Humanities in the Allocation of Resources / Edmund D. Pellegrino
31
4Ethical Options in the Care of the Elderly / J. Wesley Robb
55
5Natural Life-Span and Natural Law Ethics / Anthony Battaglia
69
Pt. III
Clinical Perspectives
6Surrogate Decisions for Nursing Home Residents / Jeanie Kayser-Jones
89
7The Appropriateness of Life-Sustaining Care for Older People / Donald J. Murphy
101
8Can We Set Limits and Enhance Autonomy? / Lawrence J. Schneiderman
115
Pt. IV
Economics and Public Policy
9Is Global Budgeting the Way to Set Limits on Health Care for the Elderly? / Michael D. Reagan
125
10Counting the Costs of Lifesaving Interventions for the Elderly / Paul T. Menzel
137
11Cost Containment and Conflicts of Interest in the Care of the Elderly / Charles E. Begley
151
12Changing the Debate About Health Care for the Elderly / Edward L. Schneider
161
Pt. V
Gender, Equity, and Distributive Justice
13Achieving Equity and Setting Limits: The Importance of Gender / Bethany Spielman
177
14Ageism, Sexism, and Health Care: Why We Need Old Women in Power / Emily Erwin Culpepper
191
15How Age Should Matter: Justice as the Basis for Limiting Care to the Elderly / Robert M. Veatch
211
16Exceptions and the Elderly / Gerald R. Winslow
231
Pt. VI
Personal Autonomy and Social Responsibility
17Personal Choice and Public Rationing / Judith Wilson Ross
247
18Imposing Limits or Changing Attitudes: Strategies for Change / Marilyn Moon
265
19Old Age and Euthanasia: A Theological and Personal Perspective / John C. Bennett
279
20Ethics and Aging: Callahan and Beyond / James W. Walters
293
List of Contributors
309
Index
311