Facing Limits: Ethics and Health Care for the Elderly

Book Overview

Advances in medical technology and the rapidly increasing population of older Americans are causing people to question the ethical limits of life-extending interventions. How do we weigh issues involving equity, efficiency, autonomy, natural life span, and responsibility for the financial burdens of health care for the elderly? In this collection o

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367157721
• ISBN13: 9780367157722
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.9"