Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing: A Critical IntroductionOpen University Press, 2003 - 191 pages Presents a critical review of key theoretical developments and issues influencing the study of adult ageing. This book explores trends in social policy, drawing on the experience of ageing in the USA, Europe and an increasingly global environment. Particular attention is given to feminist perspectives on ageing, ethics and bio-medicine. |
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... Bioethics is examined as a means of regulating professional relationships with older people that more often than not makes the relationship between health , age and social inequality increasingly obscure . Linking issues include ...
... Bioethics is examined as a means of regulating professional relationships with older people that more often than not makes the relationship between health , age and social inequality increasingly obscure . Linking issues include ...
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... bioethics that tends to isolate issues from their concrete reality . Reliance on deductive modelling and formal notions of rationality in applied ethics , he cautions , leads from rationality to morality as : ' The rationality involved ...
... bioethics that tends to isolate issues from their concrete reality . Reliance on deductive modelling and formal notions of rationality in applied ethics , he cautions , leads from rationality to morality as : ' The rationality involved ...
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A Critical Introduction Carroll L. Estes, Simon Biggs, Chris Phillipson. Bioethics in the USA has delved ... bioethical framing of this debate has embraced the concepts of gener- ational equity , moral rights and responsibilities ...
A Critical Introduction Carroll L. Estes, Simon Biggs, Chris Phillipson. Bioethics in the USA has delved ... bioethical framing of this debate has embraced the concepts of gener- ational equity , moral rights and responsibilities ...
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Desire for continuity | 31 |
Identity and the body | 37 |
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