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AGEING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION Daniel Callahan, Rudd H. J. ter Meulen and Eva Topkinkova (eds): A World Growing Old: The Coming Health Care Challenges. Georgetown University Press, Washington, 1995, 175 pp. ISBN 0 878 40576 3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1997

MALVIN SCHECHTER
Affiliation:
Henry L. Schwartz Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York
HAROLD L. SHEPPARD
Affiliation:
Department of Gerontology, University of South Florida, Tampa
ALAN MAYNARD
Affiliation:
Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, London
ROBERT H. BINSTOCK
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
STEPHEN G. POST
Affiliation:
Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
ANTHONY M. WARNES
Affiliation:
Department of Health Care for Elderly People, University of Sheffield
DANIEL CALLAHAN
Affiliation:
The Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, New York

Abstract

A geriatrician's perspective

The problem and its roots

Who shall have when all will die?

RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND SOCIETAL RESPONSES TO OLD AGE

Special Issue of Ageing and Society, Volume 15 part 2, June 1995

Commentaries:

1.) And a Few Pinches of Politics and Economics

2.) The case of Alzheimer disease

3.) Professional and political influence on resource allocation for older people

Reply to Commentaries:

Facts, Values, Ideologies and Ageing

Type
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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