Planning Later Life - Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies (Hardcover)

This book examines the relevance of modern medicine and healthcare in shaping the lives of elderly persons and the practices and institutions of ageing societies. Combining individual and social dimensions, Planning Later Life discusses the ethical, social, and political consequences of increasing life expectancies and demographic change in the context of biomedicine and public health. By focusing on the field of biomedicine and healthcare, the authors engage readers in a dialogue on the ethical and social implications of recent trends in dementia research and care, advance healthcare planning, or the rise of anti-ageing medicine and prevention. Bringing together the largely separated debates of individualist bioethics on the one hand, and public health ethics on the other, the volume deliberately considers the entanglements of envisioning, evaluating, and controlling individual and societal futures. So far, the process of devising and exploring the various positive and negative visions and strategies related to later life has rarely been reflected systematically from a philosophical, sociological, and ethical point of view. As such, this book will be crucial to those working and studying in the life sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences, particularly in the areas of bioethics, social work, gerontology and aging studies, healthcare and social service, sociology, social policy, and geography and population studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
Release date:	July 2017
Editors:	Mark Schweda • Larissa Pfaller • Kai Brauer • Frank Adloff • Silke Schicktanz
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-4724-8132-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
LSN:	1-4724-8132-1
Barcode:	9781472481320

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