ABSTRACT

First Published in 1999, lesser collects fourteen papers to create a discourse on the practical importance in a society where the proportion of elderly people is increasing. Exploring how autonomy and how it should be defined, and ethically when is it right to preserve a person’s autonomy and in comparison is it ever ethically right to bring elderly peoples autonomy as a secondary concern is it saves them from harm?

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|16 pages

The effect of ageing on autonomy

chapter 2|12 pages

Personal development in old age

chapter 7|17 pages

Therapy abatement

chapter 11|8 pages

Justifying ageism

chapter 12|13 pages

The felicific calculus strikes back

chapter 13|11 pages

Justice and the principle of triage