One of the most important and controversial thinkers to explore the problems of aging and its diverse problems in our modern society, is Daniel Callahan. The central question raised by Callahan is whether the United States has sufficient resources to provide adequate care for the rapidly increasing aging population. Callahan proposes as a matter of government policy, that life extending medical care should be denied to elderly people over the age of seventy. He further argues that length of life is less important than the quality of life and that the government's responsibility is to help people live out their natural life span with no responsibility to actively extend life with any medical intervention or technological procedure. / This author's dissertation explores the current problems in health care, recent public policies which have been formulated in response to the issues involved in health care for the elderly. The issue of ethics and justice is argued, as well as discussion on the many alternative proposals to Callahan's chronological criterion for the allocation of health resources and rationing. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-07, Section: A, page: 2502. / Director: Richard L. Rubenstein. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76651 |
| Contributors | Frye, Barbara Ann., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 255 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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