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Edited by Rachel A. Pruchno and Michael A. Smyer. 448 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-8018-8648-5.

Despite the large body of literature on ethics in health care that addresses individual cases, ethics at the bedside, and justice in the distribution of health care, book-length treatments of philosophical and ethical issues that are related to the experience of aging and an aging society are rare. Given the prominence of elderly people as patients and as consumers of health care resources, one can back into exploring ethics and aging through topical treatments of informed consent, end-of-life care, decisional competence, family caregiving, Alzheimer's disease, rationing of health care, and long-term care. But it is a losing proposition to approach . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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