Anyone who pays attention to the news today knows how much the elderly and the issues that affect them figure into modern life and politics. This timely volume gathers discussions on aging that are highly relevant both to seniors and to those who care for them, both personally and professionally.
Written by physicians, healthcare professionals, theologians, and ministers, this book explores the experience of aging itself, examines a range of ethical issues that confront seniors today, and offers practical advice on caring for the elderly. Rather than offering dry assessments of the nature...
Anyone who pays attention to the news today knows how much the elderly and the issues that affect them figure into modern life and politics. This time...
Clinical ethics is a relatively new discipline within medicine, generated not so much by the -Can we . . . ?- questions of fact and prognosis that physicians usually address, but primarily by the more uncomfortable gray areas having to do with -Should we . . . ?- questions:
Should we use a feeding tube for Mom? How should we deal with our baby about to be born with life-threatening anomalies? Should our son be taken off dialysis, even though he'll die without it? What should we do with our mentally ill sister, who has proven that she is untreatable?
Clinical ethics is a relatively new discipline within medicine, generated not so much by the -Can we . . . ?- questions of fact and prognosis that phy...
