Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction to Principal Themes and Issues -- PART ONE: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES -- 2 On Reaching a New Agenda: Self-Determination and Aging -- 3 Ethics and Aging: Trends and Problems in the Clinical Setting -- 4 Ethical Aspects of Aging: Justice, Freedom, and Responsibility -- 5 Paradigms of Aging: Growth versus Decline -- 6 Cognitive Intervention in Later Life: Philosophical Issues -- 7 The Calculus of Discrimination: Discriminatory Resource Allocation for an Aging Population -- 8 Population Aging and the Economy: Some Issues in Resource Allocation -- PART TWO: SPECIFIC ISSUES -- 9 The Right to Participate: Ending Discrimination Against the Elderly -- 10 Society and Essentials for Well-Being: Social Policy and the Provision of Care -- 11 Foregoing Treatment: Killing versus Letting Die, and the Issue of Non-Feeding -- 12 Foregoing Life-Sustaining Treatment: The Canadian Law Reform Commission and the President's Commission -- 13 Proxy Consent for Research on the Incompetent Elderly -- 14 Gerontology's Challenge from Its Research Population: Updating Research Ethics -- 15 Civil Liberties and the Elderly Patient -- 16 Narrative, Perspective, and Aging -- PART THREE: Biblography -- Bibliography -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.