Setting Limits : Medical Goals in an Aging Society with 'A Response to My Critics'

This is a provocative call to rethink America's values in health care. Health Care For The Elderly: How Much Is Enough? -- Reconstructing The Ends Of Aging -- Medicine And The Conquest Of Aging -- What Do The Young Owe The Old? -- Allocating Resources To The Elderly -- Care Of The Elderly Dying -- Old Age In New Times. Daniel Callahan. With 'a Response To My Critics'--cover. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [243]-261) And Index. Argues "from an ethical perspective" that medical resources should be allocated to the aged to improve their quality of life and to lengthen their productive life span but not only to increase their longevity. [In this book, the author] addresses the problems of aging in a ... compassionate manner. This is a pivotal work that poses hard questions and proposes provocative answers.-Back cover