Preface = vii
Acknowledgments = xiii
Contributors = xv
PARADIGMS
Changing paradigms of aging and being older: An historical perspective = 1
Patricia M. Thane
Implications of aging paradigms for bioethics = 15
George J. Agich
Health in the ``grey'' millennium: Romanticism versus complexity? = 29
John McCallum
SOCIAL RESPONSES
Protecting aged citizenship: Rethinking the ``mutuality'' of state and civil society? = 43
Terry Carney
Discrimination against the elderly within a consequentialist approach to health care resource allocation = 65
Dan W. Brock
Therapeutic jurisprudence and American elder law = 83
Marshall B. Kapp
Finding the elder voice in social legislation = 101
Linda S. Whitton
European social policy for the elderly = 119
Nicole Delperee
Aging in developing countries: A public health and human rights issue = 145
Martha Pelaez
Alexandre Kalache
CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
Aging and dying in cross-cultural perspective: An introduction to a critical cross-cultural understanding of death and dying = 161
Peter H. Stephenson
Old age, cultural complexity, and narrative interpretation: Building bridges in a 21st Century world of diversity = 175
Anne Leonora Blaakilde
Foodways of disadvantaged men growing old in the inner city: Policy issues from ethnographic research = 191
Cherry Russell
Denise Touchard
Hal Kendig
Susan Quine
REFLECTIONS
The affective alienation of the elderly: A humane and ethical issue = 217
George B. Palermo
Reflection on aging: A time to live and to share = 231
Renzo Pegoraro
Index = 245
Acknowledgments = xiii
Contributors = xv
PARADIGMS
Changing paradigms of aging and being older: An historical perspective = 1
Patricia M. Thane
Implications of aging paradigms for bioethics = 15
George J. Agich
Health in the ``grey'' millennium: Romanticism versus complexity? = 29
John McCallum
SOCIAL RESPONSES
Protecting aged citizenship: Rethinking the ``mutuality'' of state and civil society? = 43
Terry Carney
Discrimination against the elderly within a consequentialist approach to health care resource allocation = 65
Dan W. Brock
Therapeutic jurisprudence and American elder law = 83
Marshall B. Kapp
Finding the elder voice in social legislation = 101
Linda S. Whitton
European social policy for the elderly = 119
Nicole Delperee
Aging in developing countries: A public health and human rights issue = 145
Martha Pelaez
Alexandre Kalache
CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
Aging and dying in cross-cultural perspective: An introduction to a critical cross-cultural understanding of death and dying = 161
Peter H. Stephenson
Old age, cultural complexity, and narrative interpretation: Building bridges in a 21st Century world of diversity = 175
Anne Leonora Blaakilde
Foodways of disadvantaged men growing old in the inner city: Policy issues from ethnographic research = 191
Cherry Russell
Denise Touchard
Hal Kendig
Susan Quine
REFLECTIONS
The affective alienation of the elderly: A humane and ethical issue = 217
George B. Palermo
Reflection on aging: A time to live and to share = 231
Renzo Pegoraro
Index = 245