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Mortality and morality
— ageing and the ethics of care | | Author(s) | Liz Lloyd |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 24, part 2, March 2004 |
| Pages | pp 235-256 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/ |
| Keywords | Death ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Rights [elderly] ; Social ethics. |
| Annotation | This paper focuses on the circumstances of death and dying in old age. It considers the ways in which social policies and social gerontology reflect the values of independence, autonomy and citizenship; and it considers the implication of these values for older people who are dependent on others for care and support at the end of life. It discusses the complexity of the relationship between ageing and dying, by exploring recent research from the fields of social gerontology and the sociology of death and dying. Arguing that a long-term perspective is required to understand fully the circumstances of older people's deaths, it analyses the third age/fourth age dichotomy as a conceptual mode. The task of developing knowledge about the links between ageing and dying requires consideration of moral and ethical principles. The article examines the conceptual frameworks developed by feminists who argue for an ethics of care as a central analytic referent in social policy. This approach provides a powerful critique of the moral framework of independence and autonomy as characterised in contemporary policies and practices. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040317205 A |
| Classmark | CW: CX: LV: IKR: TQ |
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