Aging: Culture, Health, and Social Change (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 10)

**Culture, Health, and Social Change** is the first of three volumes on **Aging** conceived for the __International Library of Ethics, Law, and the____New Medicine__. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contest some of the predominant paradigms on aging, and critically assess modern trends in social health policy. How we approach and understand "aging" will have indelible effects on existing and future elder citizens. Acknowledging the cultural variances that exist in the human experience of aging is therefore of vital importance in order to respond to individual needs in a manner that is not paternalistic, discriminatory, or exclusionary. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Changing Paradigms of Aging and Being Older....Pages 1-14 Implications of Aging Paradigms for Bioethics....Pages 15-28 Health in the “Grey” Millennium....Pages 29-42 Protecting Aged Citizenship....Pages 43-64 Discrimination Against the Elderly Within a Consequentialist Approach to Health Care Resource Allocation....Pages 65-82 Therapeutic Jurisprudence and American Elder Law....Pages 83-100 Finding the Elder Voice in Social Legislation....Pages 101-117 European Social Policy for the Elderly....Pages 119-144 Aging in Developing Countries....Pages 145-159 Aging and Dying in Cross-Cultural Perspective....Pages 161-173 Old Age, Cultural Complexity, and Narrative Interpretation....Pages 175-189 Foodways of Disadvantaged Men Growing Old in the Inner City....Pages 191-215 The Affective Alienation of the Elderly....Pages 217-230 Reflection on Aging....Pages 231-243 Back Matter....Pages 245-255

Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contest some of the predominant paradigms on aging, and critically assess modern trends in social health policy. How we approach and understand "aging" will have indelible effects on existing and future elder citizens. Acknowledging the cultural variances that exist in the human experience of aging is therefore of vital importance in order to respond to individual needs in a manner that is not paternalistic, discriminatory, or exclusionary.

This is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contest some of the predominant paradigms on aging, and critically assess modern trends in social health policy.