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      • Edited by C. S. Wareham, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2022
      August 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108861168
      9781108495134
      9781108817042
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108861168
      Dimensions:
      (250 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.71kg, 314 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (245 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 314 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Medicine, Ethics, Medical Law, Ethics and forensic Medicine, Philosophy
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    We're all getting older from the moment we're born. Ageing is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life. Yet in ethics, not much work is done on the questions surrounding ageing: how do diachronic features of ageing and the lifespan contribute to the overall value of life? How do time, change, and mortality impact on questions of morality and the good life? And how ought societies to respond to issues of social justice and the good, balancing the interests of generations and age cohorts? In this Cambridge Handbook, the first book-length attempt to stake this terrain, leading moral philosophers from a range of sub-fields and regions set out their approaches to the conceptual and ethical understanding of ageing. The volume makes an important contribution to significant debates about the implications of ageing for individual well-being, social policy and social justice.

    Reviews

    ‘Wareham’s forward-looking concern to develop a differentiated ethics of life-historically varying aging processes in all their breadth is of great importance.’

    Hartmut Remmers Source: Ethik in der Medizin

    ‘Each contribution in this volume demonstrates the authors' profound ethical reflections as well as their intensive engagement with central questions of aging and old age … the proximity to theoretical and empirical lifespan and life course research, and ultimately to cultural-anthropological research, is evident throughout. And this proximity constitutes a special potential of the volume, for it opens up the possibility of integrating central moral and normative questions into the context of more comprehensive aging research. This is achieved in a very convincing and engaging way. The contributions are written in a highly stimulating and inspiring manner.’

    Andreas Kruse Source: Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik

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    • 1 - Old Age and the Preference for the Future
      pp 9-22
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