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(Hastings Center Studies in Ethics.) Edited by Daniel Callahan, Ruud H.J. ter Meulen, and Eva Topinková. 175 pp. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press, 1995. $42.50. ISBN 0-87840-591-7.

This monograph deals with the present and projected health care problems facing the elderly according to U.S. and Western European students of the subject. The outgrowth of a two-year research project organized by the Institute for Bioethics, Maastricht, the Netherlands, and the Hastings Center in the United States, this book is also a volume in the Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series.

Geriatrics is one of those problematic fields in which there is a plethora of statistics but a dearth of solutions. In this book we learn that the population over 65 in the Netherlands will increase by 14 percent . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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