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Author:   C. S. Wareham (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781108817042

ISBN 10:   1108817041
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   04 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I. Ageing and the Good Life: 1. Old age and the preference for the future Jeff McMahan; 2. Ageing and the temporality of the good life Mark Schweda; 3. Children's prudential value Anthony Skelton; 4. The ethics of ageing in Frank Perry's The Swimmer Christopher Hamilton; 5. Is ageing good? Christine Overall; 6. Mental health in old age Simon Keller; 7. In defense of a semi-stoical attitude about ageing and death David De Grazia; Part II. Ageing and Morality: 8. Personhood across the lifespan Søren Holm; 9. African and East Asian perspectives on ageing Thaddeus Metz; 10. Special obligations in long-standing friendships Diane Jeske; 11. Forgiveness and ageing Geoffrey Scarre; 12. Life-extending treatments for people with dementia Nancy S. Jecker; 13. 'Half in love with easeful death': Rational suicide and the elderly L. W. Sumner; Part III. Ageing and Society: 14. 'To Grandmother's house we go': On Women, Ethics, and ageing Samantha Brennan; 15. Ageing, Unequal longevities and intergenerational justice Axel Gosseries; 16. Ageing, Justice, and Work: Alternatives to mandatory retirement Daniel Halliday and Tom Parr; 17. Age and well-being: Ethical implications of the U-curve of happiness Christopher S. Wareham; 18. The desirability and morality of life extension John K. Davis.

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'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, Ethik in der Medizin

Author Information

C. S. Wareham is a researcher at the Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, and Honorary Associate Professor at the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, the University of the Witwatersrand. He has published a number of journal articles on ethics and ageing.

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