Aging: Culture, Health, and Social Change

David N. Weisstub, David C. Thomasma, S. Gauthier, G.F. Tomossy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-5896-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Paradigms.- Changing paradigms of aging and being older: An historical perspective.- Implications of aging paradigms for bioethics.- Health in the “grey” millennium: Romanticism versus complexity?.- Social Responses.- Protecting aged citizenship: Rethinking the “mutuality” of state and civil society?.- Discrimination against the elderly within a consequentialist approach to health care resource allocation.- Therapeutic jurisprudence and American elder law.- Finding the elder voice in social legislation.- European social policy for the elderly.- Aging in developing countries: A public health and human rights issue.- Cultural Dimensions.- Aging and dying in cross-cultural perspective: An introduction to a critical cross-cultural understanding of death and dying.- Old age, cultural complexity, and narrative interpretation: Building bridges in a 21st Century world of diversity.- Foodways of disadvantaged men growing old in the inner city: Policy issues from ethnographic research.- Reflections.- The affective alienation of the elderly: A humane and ethical issue.- Reflection on aging: A time to live and to share.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	"International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine " ; 10
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 256 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-481-5896-6 / 9048158966
ISBN-13	978-90-481-5896-6 / 9789048158966
Zustand	Neuware