Too old for health care? : controversies in medicine, law, economics, and ethics /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1991] ©1991
Description:	xv, 209 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The Johns Hopkins series in contemporary medicine and public health Johns Hopkins series in contemporary medicine and public health.
Subject:	Older people -- Medical care -- United States. Medical ethics -- United States. Medical care, Cost of -- United States. Older people. Medical care, Cost of. Older people Medical care, Cost of Medical ethics Older people -- Medical care United States
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1280201

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Other authors / contributors:	Binstock, Robert H., editor. Post, Stephen G. (Stephen Garrard), 1951- editor. Mills, Laurel S., editor. Koop, C. Everett (Charles Everett), 1916-2013, writer of foreword.
ISBN:	0801841658 9780801841651 0801842484 9780801842481
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The author discuss topics ranging from the economics of geriatric care to the use of medical technology for elderly patients, from legal and religious views on rationing health care to ways of establishing equitable public policies.--

Table of Contents:

Old age and the rationing of health care / Robert H. Binstock, Stephen G. Post
Economic and clinical realities: health care for elderly people / Dennis W. Jahnigen, Robert H. Binstock
Advanced medical technology and elderly people / Roger W. Evans
The goals of medicine in an aging society / Christine K. Cassel, Bernice L. Neugarten
Age-based rationing and the law: an exploration / Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Charles P. Sabatino
Justice for elderly people in Jewish and Christian thought / Stephen G. Post
From ageism toward autonomy / David C. Thomasma
Meaning, aging and public policy / Thomas H. Murray
Allocation, yes; age-based rationing, no / Harry R. Moody.

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