Aging

by Weisstub, David N.; Thomasma, David C.; Gauthier, Serge; Tomossy, George F.

• ISBN13: 9781402001802
• ISBN10: 1402001800
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contest some of the predominant paradigms on aging, and critically assess modern trends in social health policy. How we approach and understand "aging" will have indelible effects on existing and future elder citizens. Acknowledging the cultural variances that exist in the human experience of aging is therefore of vital importance in order to respond to individual needs in a manner that is not paternalistic, discriminatory, or exclusionary.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Contributors	xv
PARADIGMS
Changing paradigms of aging and being older: An historical perspective	1	(14)
Patricia M. Thane
Implications of aging paradigms for bioethics	15	(14)
George J. Agich
Health in the ``grey'' millennium: Romanticism versus complexity?	29	(14)
John McCallum
SOCIAL RESPONSES
Protecting aged citizenship: Rethinking the ``mutuality'' of state and civil society?	43	(22)
Terry Carney
Discrimination against the elderly within a consequentialist approach to health care resource allocation	65	(18)
Dan W. Brock
Therapeutic jurisprudence and American elder law	83	(18)
Marshall B. Kapp
Finding the elder voice in social legislation	101	(18)
Linda S. Whitton
European social policy for the elderly	119	(26)
Nicole Delperee
Aging in developing countries: A public health and human rights issue	145	(16)
Martha Pelaez
Alexandre Kalache
CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
Aging and dying in cross-cultural perspective: An introduction to a critical cross-cultural understanding of death and dying	161	(14)
Peter H. Stephenson
Old age, cultural complexity, and narrative interpretation: Building bridges in a 21st Century world of diversity	175	(16)
Anne Leonora Blaakilde
Foodways of disadvantaged men growing old in the inner city: Policy issues from ethnographic research	191	(26)
Cherry Russell
Denise Touchard
Hal Kendig
Susan Quine
REFLECTIONS
The affective alienation of the elderly: A humane and ethical issue	217	(14)
George B. Palermo
Reflection on aging: A time to live and to share	231	(14)
Renzo Pegoraro
Index	245