Aging, death, and human longevity : a philosophical inquiry / Christine Overall.
"Writing from a feminist perspective, Overall highlights the ways in which our biases about race, class, and gender have affected our views of elderly people and longevity, and her policy recommendations represent an effort to overcome these biases. She also covers the arguments surrounding the...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: "Death Twitches My Ear"
- 2. "Remember You Must Die": Arguments against Prolonging Human Life
- 3. Age Rationing and "Generational Cleansing": Evaluating the "Duty to Die"
- 4. "One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer": Arguments in Favor of Prolonging Human Life
- 5. "From Here to Eternity": Is It Good to Live Forever?
- 6. "The Death of Death": Immortality, Identity, and Selfhood
- 7. Personal and Policy Implications: "Rage against the Dying of the Light"?