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Author:   Mark Schweda ,  Larissa Pfaller ,  Kai Brauer ,  Frank Adloff
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780367350079

ISBN 10:   0367350076
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   21 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Mark Schweda, Larissa Pfaller, and Silke Schicktanz Part 1: Conceptions of Aging and Old Age 1. ""A Season to Everything""? Considering Life-Course Perspectives in Bioethical and Public-Health Discussions on Aging Mark Schweda 2. Becoming Oneself: Toward a New Philosophy of Ageing Thomas Rentsch 3. Third Age and Fourth Age in Aging Societies – Divergent Social and Ethical Discourses François Höpflinger 4. The Nature of the Fourth Age as a Challenge to Aging Societies Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard Part 2: Perspectives and Problems of Old Age in the Context of Medicine and Healthcare 5. Old Age, Potentials, and Vulnerability Andreas Kruse 6. Competence and Cognitive Deterioration: Are We Paying Enough Attention to Ethical Issues? Perla Werner and Silke Schicktanz 7. Opt In or Opt Out? Rethinking the Provision of Life-Sustaining Medical Technology to the 'Old Old' Hsiu-I Yang 8. Not Growing Old – Gracefully Søren Holm 9. How to Think About Age-Group Justice: The Capabilities Approach Nancy S. Jecker Part 3: Individual Provisions and Public Policies in Aging Societies 10. Final Decisions for the Final Crisis: Hopes and Hypes Regarding the Advance Directive in Germany Kai Brauer 11. Preparing Existential Decisions in Later Life: Advance Healthcare Planning Ralf J. Jox 12. Articulating the Case for the Longevity Dividend S. Jay Olshansky 13. Paradoxes of Planning Later Life: Anti-Aging Practices and the Lived Body Larissa Pfaller and Frank Adloff 14. The Visionary Shaping of Dementia Research: Imaginations and Scenarios in Biopolitical Narratives and Ethical Reflections Silke Schicktanz 15. Solidarity and Family Care for an Aging Population Ruud ter Meulen 16. Legacies, Generations, and Aging Futures: The Ethics of Intergenerativity Stephen Katz and Peter J. Whitehouse Index"

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Planning Later Life provides an accessible and well-written volume for interdisci-plinary scholars and non-scientific readers. It acquires a reasonable balance between a width of perspectives and depths of discussing the implications of an increasing life expectancy. Martin Sand, Monash Bioethics Review.

Author Information

Mark Schweda is Research Fellow at the Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen. Larissa Pfaller is Research Associate at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and currently Deputy Professor at the University of Hamburg. Kai Brauer is a sociologist and teaches empirical methods and sociology of aging at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS). Frank Adloff is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg. Silke Schicktanz is a bioethicist and Professor for Cultural and Ethical Studies of Biomedicine at the Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen.

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