Dementia and Aging: Ethics, Values, and Policy Choices - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801845459 ISBN 13 : 9780801845451

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Several million Americans are afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementing disorder. For families, professional caregivers, policy makers, and the patients themselves, the challenges are immense and the economic costs are staggering. In Dementia and Aging Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post, and Peter J. Whitehouse bring together experts in gerontology, geriatrics, psychiatry, neurology, nursing, ethics, philosophy, public policy, and law to examine the ethical, moral, and policy controversies surrounding dementia.

The authors first present background information on dementia and related ethical and policy issues. The remainder of the book is divided into three parts. Part One conveys the difficulties experienced by dementia patients and their caregivers. Part Two deals with ethical and moral issues involved in decisions regarding treatment and care, including the highly controversial subject of euthanasia. Part Three lays out societal choices regarding the allocation of resources for treatment, care, and research on dementia.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Robert H. Binstock (1935-2011) was, at the time of his death, a professor of aging, health, and society at Case Western Reserve University, where he taught in the public health program and also in the departments of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, bioethics, and in the School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Stephen G. Post is the director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. He is the author of The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying.

Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD, is a professor of neurology at Case Western Reserve University and the cofounder of the Intergenerational Schools. Together, they are the coauthors of The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told about Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801845459
• ISBN 13: 9780801845451
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Binstock PhD Robert H., Post PhD Stephen G., Whitehouse MD PhD Peter J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible