Ageing without Ageism?

Greg Bognar is Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and a Senior Researcher at the Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics (CHE). Previously, he worked at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Center for Bioethics at New York University, and the Central European University. He held research fellowships at Princeton University, Harvard University, and Flinders University. He is co-author of the book The Ethics of Health Care Rationing: An Introduction (Routledge, 2014; second, expanded edition 2022).Axel Gosseries is a philosopher (PhD., UCLouvain) and a law scholar (LL.M., London). He is FNRS Research Professor and Professeur extraordinaire at UCLouvain (Belgium) where he heads the Hoover Chair in economic and social ethics and the PPE Program. He has published in philosophy, law and economics journals and has been working for 25 years on issues of intergenerational justice. He has taught courses and seminars in 13 countries and has spent research time in a variety of research institutes, including recently at ICUB (Bucharest), ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon), AIAS (Aarhus), IJ-UC (Coimbra), IFFS (Stockholm), the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague).

Ageism is one of the most persistent, pervasive, and pernicious of all "isms." Older adults face discrimination in employment, healthcare, and everyday encounters. Yet policymakers and practitioners struggle with ethical dilemmas as they seek to provide supports and services to older adults without treating them in a demoralizing or paternalistic manner. This important edited volume thoughtfully wrestles with these challenges. Highly recommended.

• 1: Greg Bognar and Axel Gosseries: Introduction 2: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen: Age Discrimination: Is It Special? Is It Wrong? 3: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Does the Badness of Disability Differ from that of Old Age? 4: Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen: In Defence of Age-Differentiated Paternalism 5: Matthew D. Adler: Age and the Social Value of Risk Reduction: Three Perspectives 6: Paul Bou-Habib: Can Egalitarians Justify Spending More on the Elderly? 7: Axel Gosseries: Age Limits and the Significance of Entire Lives Egalitarianism 8: Simon Birnbaum and Kenneth Nelson: Age Universalism will Benefit All (Ages) 9: Anca Gheaus: <"Let Them Be Children> "? Age Limits in Voting and Conceptions of Childhood 10: Alexandru Volacu: Age and the Voting-Driving Analogy 11: Tyler M. John: Empowering Future People by Empowering the Young? 12: Greg Bognar: COVID-19, Age, and Rationing 13: Francesca Minerva: Ageism in Assisted Reproduction 14: Andrée-Anne Cormier and Harry Brighouse: An Education Resource Account for Early School Leavers 15: Vincent Vandenberghe: Differentiating Retirement Age to Compensate for Health and Longevity Inequality? 16: Kim Angell: Aging in Place and Autonomy: Is the 'Age-Friendly' City Initiative Too Elderly-Friendly? 17: Daniel Halliday: An Age-Based Delayed Housing Wealth Tax 18: Manuel Sá Valente: Two Types of Age-Sensitive Taxation 19: Pierre Pestieau and Gregory Ponthiere: An Age-Differentiated Tax on Bequests