We're all getting older from the moment we're born. Ageing is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life. Yet in ethics, not much work is done on the questions surrounding ageing: how do diachronic features of ageing and the lifespan contribute to the overall value of life? How do time, change, and mortality impact on questions of morality and the good life? And how ought societies to respond to issues of social justice and the good, balancing the interests of generations and age cohorts? In this Cambridge Handbook, the first book-length attempt to stake this terrain, leading moral philosophers from a range of sub-fields and regions set out their approaches to the conceptual and ethical understanding of ageing. The volume makes an important contribution to significant debates about the implications of ageing for individual well-being, social policy and social justice.

The first volume of new work dedicated specifically to ageing ethics - wide-ranging, clear, and accessible.

About the Author
C. S. Wareham is a researcher at the Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, and Honorary Associate Professor at the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, the University of the Witwatersrand. He has published a number of journal articles on ethics and ageing.


Book Information
ISBN 9781108817042
Author C. S. Wareham
Format Paperback
Page Count 380
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 245mm * 170mm * 15mm