Abstract
Schermer and Pinxten - Introduction.- I. Science of on ageing and longevity.- Wim Pinxten Scientists expectations of (anti-) aging research.- Joao De Magalhaes - Pertintent ethical issues in the genomics of ageing.- II. Images of age and ageing.- Soren Holm Ecce Homo: the implicit anthropology of bioethics and the aging person.- Wim Dekkers An anthropology of the aging person.- John Vincent The anti-aging movement: contemporary cultures and the social construction of old age.- Bert Keizer Why we don't like old people.- Frans Meulenberg - Older people's own views on age and aging.- III Ethics in care for elderly.- Cees Hertogh Ethics and frail eldery.- Frits de Lange Imagining good aging.- Govert den Hartogh - Death wishes of the elderly.- Dorothea Touwen Former wishes and current desires - demented patients and their family.- members' effort to decide what they would have wanted.- Anders Schinkel Justice and the elderly.- IV Ethics and prolongevity.- John Harris Enhancement: longevity/immortality?.- Hans van Delden On the value of being mortal.- Inez de Beaufort Will you still love me when I'm..? On beauty and aging.- Maartje Schermer Old age is an incurable disease - or is it?.- Marianne Boenink On shifting disease concepts and molecular medicine.- Hans Joerg Ehni Life extension for all.- Struijs, Ten Have, Willems Healthy aging and personal responsibility.- V Ethics in an aging society: policy implications.- Goran Hermeren Policy implications of views expressed in this volume.
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