Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine.

Paradigms.- Changing paradigms of aging and being older: An historical perspective.- Implications of aging paradigms for bioethics.- Health in the “grey” millennium: Romanticism versus complexity?.- Social Responses.- Protecting aged citizenship: Rethinking the “mutuality” of state and civil society?.- Discrimination against the elderly within a consequentialist approach to health care resource allocation.- Therapeutic jurisprudence and American elder law.- Finding the elder voice in social legislation.- European social policy for the elderly.- Aging in developing countries: A public health and human rights issue.- Cultural Dimensions.- Aging and dying in cross-cultural perspective: An introduction to a critical cross-cultural understanding of death and dying.- Old age, cultural complexity, and narrative interpretation: Building bridges in a 21st Century world of diversity.- Foodways of disadvantaged men growing old in the inner city: Policy issues from ethnographic research.- Reflections.- The affective alienation of the elderly: A humane and ethical issue.- Reflection on aging: A time to live and to share.

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