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Coping with Methuselah

Author : Henry Aaron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815796307
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Coping with Methuselah written by Henry Aaron and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could well exceed 100 years by mid century and rise even higher soon thereafter. This astonishing prospect, brought on by the revolution in molecular biology and information technology, confronts policymakers and public health officials with a host of new questions. How will increased longevity affect local and global demographic trends, government taxation and spending, health care, the workplace, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? What ethical and quality-of-life issues are raised by these new breakthroughs? In Coping with Methuselah, a group of practicing scientists and public policy experts come together to address the problems, challenges, and opportunities posed by a longer life span. This book will generate discussion in political, social, and medical circles and help prepare us for the extraordinary possibilities that the future may hold.

Coping with Methuselah

Author : Henry Aaron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815796305
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Coping with Methuselah written by Henry Aaron and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could well exceed 100 years by mid century and rise even higher soon thereafter. This astonishing prospect, brought on by the revolution in molecular biology and information technology, confronts policymakers and public health officials with a host of new questions. How will increased longevity affect local and global demographic trends, government taxation and spending, health care, the workplace, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? What ethical and quality-of-life issues are raised by these new breakthroughs? In Coping with Methuselah, a group of practicing scientists and public policy experts come together to address the problems, challenges, and opportunities posed by a longer life span. This book will generate discussion in political, social, and medical circles and help prepare us for the extraordinary possibilities that the future may hold.

Staying Alive

Author : Jason K. Swedene
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761847596
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Staying Alive written by Jason K. Swedene and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staying Alive explores the desire to live forever, which manifests itself in many forms and forums. Many throughout history have measured their self worth by the metric of how they will stay alive: one wants fame, another needs children. One wants to leave behind a personalized legacy, another wants to leave behind the world and enjoy the bliss of heaven. The author's self-expressed 'aim has been, simply, to write a readable book that will afford the reader an increased sensitivity to the many ways the desire for immortality has shaped history, philosophy, art, and literature.' The thought that this analysis of human longing and culture provokes transcends any one way of approaching these disciplines. It searches for, and connects, deeply personal pursuits with greater collective trends.

Should You Die?

Author : Augusto T. S. Cruz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9898969334
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Should You Die? written by Augusto T. S. Cruz and published by . This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living healthily for centuries is no longer a sci-fi prospect. It is very likely that the first person to live to 200 years in good health is already alive – scientific and technological advances of today are starting to produce medicines and treatments which tackle aging directly. The true debate is no longer about whether we can extend our lives and fight death – it is about whether we should. If advances in medicine and engineering protect you and others from aging, diseases, injuries, and accidents, allowing you to live as a healthy 25-year-old for as long as you wanted (where death could only visit you if, and when, you wished), should you say yes to this future? And what happens if enough people say yes? Will overpopulation be inevitable? Will we lose our identity as humans by relinquishing mortality? Will humanity be challenging the natural and divine order? Will we grow lazy and complacent? Will the divide between the rich and poor grow? Or is overcoming aging and disease a mandate of medicine and a moral imperative to aim for? Perhaps even our destiny as humans? In the same way push back on hunger, pestilence, and violence, should we end the cycle of suffering and death which aging brings to us all? In Should You Die? Augusto T.S. Cruz weighs in on these questions. The author methodically picks apart arguments supporting each side of the debate, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, making the book an excellent primer for those interested in the discussion, and a helpful guide for those already involved.

Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 11

Author : Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780826116536
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 11 written by Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are now engaged in a movement that de-emphasizes the reliance on institutional forms of long-term care for disabled persons needing ongoing daily living assistance and converges on the use of non-institutional service providers abnd residential settings. In this latest edition of Ethics, Law and Aging Review , Kapp and ten expert contributors help us examine the forces and potential for changeing the long-term care industry (both positively and negatively) and address this paradigm shift from the inpersonal, public psychiatric institutions of the 1960s and 1970s to the present-day assisted living environments that have been fueled by economic, social, polictical, and legal forces. Most important ly, this volume identifies obstaclesto change and enlighten service providers, advocates, and key policy makers to the pitfalls that can largely interfere with positive outcomes as a result of long-term care deinstitutionalization. Topics explored include: Community-based alternatives for older adults with serious mental illness Failing consumer-directed alternatives to nursing homes Ethics of Medicare privatization

State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability (State of the World)

Author : Erik Assadourian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039333726X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability (State of the World) written by Erik Assadourian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible summaries ... on the global environment. (E.O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize??winning author).

State of the World 2010

Author : Worldwatch Institute
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134071140
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book State of the World 2010 written by Worldwatch Institute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the environmental and social problems we face today are symptoms of a deeper systemic failing: a dominant cultural paradigm that encourages living in ways that are often directly counter to the realities of a finite planet. This paradigm, typically referred to as 'consumerism,' has already spread to cultures around the world and has led to consumption levels that are vastly unsustainable. If this pattern spreads further there will be little possibility of solving climate change or other environmental problems that are poised to dramatically disrupt human civilization. It will take a sustained, long-term effort to redirect the traditions, social movements and institutions that shape consumer cultures towards becoming cultures of sustainability. These institutions include schools, the media, businesses and governments. Bringing about a cultural shift that makes living sustainably as 'natural' as a consumer lifestyle is today will not only address urgent crises like climate change, it could also tackle other symptoms like extreme income inequity, obesity and social isolation that are not typically seen as environmental problems. State of the World 2010 paints a picture of what this sustainability culture could look like, and how we can - and already are - making the shift.

Can We Say No?

Author : Henry J. Aaron
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815701200
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Can We Say No? written by Henry J. Aaron and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the use of rationing as a means to curb health care spending, using the experience of Great Britain to highlight the promises and pitfalls of this approach"--Provided by publisher.

Revolutionary Wealth

Author : Alvin Toffler
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 038552207X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Wealth written by Alvin Toffler and published by Currency. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our businesses, governments, families, and daily lives. In REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH, they once again demonstrate their unparalleled ability to illuminate current trends and anticipate what they mean for the future. REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created—and who will get it—in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of “prosumers,” consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on “third jobs”—work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities—from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets—contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.

Aging

Author : Harry R. Moody
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 9781412915205
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Aging written by Harry R. Moody and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world's most unique and dynamic textbook on aging!Widely praised and adopted in previous editions, the Fifth Edition of Aging once again presents key issues in an engaging and accessible fashion. Organized unlike any other traditional textbook, author Harry R. Moody presents basic concepts followed by controversies, supported by carefully chosen adapted readings. The result is the most captivating introduction to gerontology available today.

Opportunity 08

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 081570187X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Opportunity 08 written by Michael E. O'Hanlon and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voters say they want to hear more from candidates about the critical issues facing our nation and less about partisan politics. Opportunity 08 answers the call with authoritative analysis and innovative policy solutions for the problems that matter most to the future of our society, our prosperity, and our world. Reflecting an impressive breadth of expertise, opinions, and political beliefs, the contributors to this book tackle diverse challenges including how to deal with Iran and Iraq, the rise of China, climate change, poverty and inequality, and retirement security. New chapters in this updated and expanded second edition include examinations of homeland security, foreign aid, health care reform, and the U.S. relationship with Pakistan. Praise for the first edition: "Each chapter contains well-organized, innovative and practical approaches not just for the sitting president, but for the campaigning hopefuls, and should inspire voters to look beyond all-too-typical horse race coverage—and perhaps demand more from their news media and their leaders."—Publishers Weekly Learn more about the Brookings Opportunity 08 project at www.brookings.edu/projects/opportunity08.aspx

The Five Horsemen of the Modern World

Author : Daniel Callahan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154152X
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Five Horsemen of the Modern World written by Daniel Callahan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and water shortages, rising chronic illnesses, and rampant obesity. Why can't we make any progress in counteracting these problems despite vast expenditures of intellectual, institutional, and social capital? What makes these global emergencies the "wicked problems" that resist our best efforts and only grow more daunting? Daniel Callahan, noted author and the nation's preeminent scholar in bioethics, examines these global problems and shines a light on the institutions, practices, and actors that block major change. We see partisan political and ideological forces, old-fashioned hucksters, and trumped-up scientific disagreements but also the problem of modern progress itself. Obesity, anthropogenic climate change, degenerative diseases, ecological degradation, and global famine are often the unintended consequences of unchecked industrial growth, insatiable eating habits, and technologically extended life spans. Only through well-crafted political, regulatory, industrial, and cultural counterstrategies can we change enough minds to check these threats. With big thinking on issues that are usually evaluated separately, this book is sure to scramble partisan divides and provoke unusual, heated debate.

Demography and the Economy

Author : John B. Shoven
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226754758
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Demography and the Economy written by John B. Shoven and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographics is a vital field of study for understanding social and economic change and it has attracted attention in recent years as concerns have grown over the aging populations of developed nations. Demographic studies help make sense of key aspects of the economy, offering insight into trends in fertility, mortality, immigration, and labor force participation, as well as age, gender, and race specific trends in health and disability. Demography and the Economy explores the connections between demography and economics, paying special attention to what demographic trends can reveal about the sustainability of traditional social security programs and the larger implications for economic growth. The volume brings together some of the leading scholars working at the border between the two disciplines, and it provides an eclectic overview of both fields. Contributors also offer deeper analysis of a variety of issues such as the impact of greater wealth on choices about marriage and childbearing and the effects of aging populations on housing prices, Social Security, and Medicare.

Ending Life

Author : Margaret Pabst Battin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190286245
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Ending Life written by Margaret Pabst Battin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands to furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for causing death, and the development of "NuTech" methods of assistance in dying. Battin's new collection covers a remarkably wide range of end-of-life topics, including suicide prevention, AIDS, suicide bombing, serpent-handling and other religious practices that pose a risk of death, genetic prognostication, suicide in old age, global justice and the "duty to die," and suicide, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia, in both American and international contexts. As with the earlier volume, these new essays are theoretically adroit but draw richly from historical sources, fictional techniques, and ample factual material.

Sustaining India's Growth Miracle

Author : Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231143664
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining India's Growth Miracle written by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume analyse the forces behind India's emerging role as a world economic player and identify the hidden weaknesses that, if unaddressed, may slow the country's growth.

Toward Post Ageing

Author : Katarina Friberg Felsted
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319090518
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Toward Post Ageing written by Katarina Friberg Felsted and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the emergent and expanding role of technologies that hold both promise and possible peril for transforming the ageing process in this century. It discusses the points and counterpoints of technological advances that would influence a reconstruction of what it means to age when embedded in a post-human vision for a post-biological future. The book presents a provocative interdisciplinary meta-analysis that contrasts paradigms with inflection points, making the case that society has entered a new inflection point, provisionally labeled as Post Ageing. It goes on to discuss the moderate and radical versions of this inflection point and the philosophical issues that need to be addressed with the advent of post ageing activities: postponing and possibly ending ageing, primarily through technological advances. This book will be a valuable resource for professionals who wish to review the continuum of varied constructs and intersects of technologies ranging from those purporting to enhance the activities of daily living in older adults, to those that would enable the older worker to stay competitive in the labor market, to those that propose to extend longevity and ultimately, claim to transcend ageing itself—moving toward a transhumanistic domain and more specifically, a post-ageing inflection point.

Research Findings in the Economics of Aging

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226903087
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Research Findings in the Economics of Aging written by David A. Wise and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, a group of leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject. Among the broad topics discussed are work and retirement behavior, disability, and their relationship to the structure of retirement and disability policies. While choices about when to retire are made by individuals, these decisions are influenced by a set of incentives, including retirement benefits and health care, and this volume includes cross-national analyses of the effects of such programs on these decisions. Furthermore, the volume also offers in-depth analysis of the effects of retirement plans, employer contributions, and housing prices on retirement. It explores well-established relationships among economic circumstances, health, and mortality, as well as the effects of poverty and lower levels of economic development on health and life satisfaction. By combining micro and macro evidence, this volume continues a tradition of expanding the research agenda on the economics of aging.