LEADER 04347cam 2200481 i 4500001 on1137755919 003 OCoLC 005 20210703152205.1 008 200131t20202020inu b 001 0 eng d 019 1137751285 020 9780268108014 |q(hardcover) 020 0268108013 |q(hardcover) 020 |z9780268108021 |q(paperback) 020 |z0268108021 |q(paperback) 035 (Sirsi) 99990684025 035 99990684025 035 (OCoLC)1137755919 |z(OCoLC)1137751285 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dBDX |dOCLCQ |dPCJ |dIND |dYDXIT |dOKX |dBBW |dOCL |dBBW |dCDX |dUtOrBLW 050 4 QP86 |b.E94 2020 082 04 612.6/7 |223 245 04 The evening of life : |bthe challenges of aging and dying well / |cedited by Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz. 264 1 Notre Dame, Indiana : |bUniversity of Notre Dame Press, |c[2020] 264 4 |c©2020 300 viii, 205 pages ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |gIntroduction: |tToward an Ethics of Aging / |rJoseph E. Davis -- |gPart I. |tOur deficit Model of Aging -- |tDevalued Status of Old Age / |rJoseph E. Davis -- |tStructural-Ethical Source of the Matter: The Medical-Industrial Complex / |rSharon R. Kaufman -- |tBeyond Avoidance and Autonomy / |rPaul Scherz -- |gPart II. |tLIving Old Age Well -- |tEpiphanies, Small and Large / |rWilfred M. McClay -- |tContraction of Time and Existential Awakening: A Phenomenology of Authentic Aging / |rKevin Aho -- |tEnd of the Story: A Narrativist View of Life's Finale / |rCharles Guignon -- |tHappiness and Aging: an Unlikely Combination? / |rBryan S. Turner -- |gPart III. |tOld age that Goes Well -- |tFriendship, Citizenship, and Abandonment: Older Adults with Dementia and Without Family Caregivers / |rJanelle S. Taylor-- |tPriority of Social and Physical Function: Older Adults in the CAPABLE Program / |rSarah L. Scanton and Janiece Taylor -- |tFrom Diagnosis to Person-Focused Prognosis: Toward a Healthy Political Economy of Aging in America / |rJustin Mutter. 520 Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on a notion of absolute individual autonomy that cannot but fail in the face of the dependency that comes with aging and decline at the end of life. To help correct the ethical impoverishment at the root of our contemporary social confusion, The Evening of Life provides an interdisciplinary examination of the challenges of aging and dying well. It calls for a re-envisioning of cultural concepts, practices, and virtues that embraces decline, dependency, and finitude rather than stigmatizes them. Bringing together the work of sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, this collection of essays develops an interrelated set of conceptual tools to discuss the current challenges posed to aging and dying well, such as flourishing, temporality, narrative, and friendship. Above all, it proposes a positive understanding of thriving in old age that is rooted in our shared vulnerability as human beings. It also suggests how some of these tools and concepts can be deployed to create a medical system that better responds to our contemporary needs. The Evening of Life will interest bioethicists, medical practitioners, clinicians, and others involved in the care of the aging and dying--from back cover. 650 0 Aging. |=^A70 650 0 Death. |=^A863 650 0 Quality of life. |=^A8135 650 7 Quality of life. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01085009 650 7 Aging. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00800293 650 7 Death. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00888613 700 1 Davis, Joseph E., |eeditor. |=^A265205 700 1 Scherz, Paul J., |eeditor. |=^A1438660 949 |i30372017346781 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s35.00 |tJoyner48 |uJSOC |zUSD 596 1 998 5814575