Abstract
Introduction. The Aging Individual. The Meaning of Life. The Meaning of Life and the Meaning of Old Age. Oedipus and the Meaning of Aging: Personal Reflections and Historical Perspectives. Recovering the Body in Aging. Aging and Filial Responsibility. The Aging Society as a Context of Family Life. What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents? Families as Caregivers: The Limits of Morality. Health Care Decision Making. Rethinking Family Loyalties. The Role of Intimate Others in Medical Decision Making. Distributive Justice in an Aging Society. Limiting Health Care for the Old. A Lifespan Approach to Health Care. Old Age and the Rationing of Scarce Health Care Resources. Appeals to Nature in Theories of Age Group Justice. Paying the Real Costs of Lifesaving. Intent and Actuality. Philosophical Reflections on Aging and Death. Resentment and the Rights of the Elderly. Ancient Myth and Modern Medicine: Lessons from Baucis and Philemon. The Meaning of Temporality in Old Age. The Absurd. Index.
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