Science and Ethics of Aging Well

描述（由申请人提供）：随着我们的社会不断老龄化，它与前几代人从未遇到过的一系列道德问题作斗争。 包括决定后代应该在多大程度上对彼此负责，如何提供护理，如何做出关于临终护理的决定，以及遗传技术的进步如何影响我们的生活。 此应用程序要求支持三个会议，旨在推进老龄化和伦理学的跨学科研究。 通过为来自不同背景的科学家和伦理学家提供一个论坛，他们致力于了解衰老和伦理学的交叉点，这将是一个独特的机会，可以激发批判性思维，定义尚未回答的突出问题，并为下一代实证研究奠定基础。 每次会议都将有一个应用的重点，因为它在老龄化和道德的交叉点的一个重大问题的斗争。 会议议题包括：（1）跨代的责任和社区，（2）生命的终结，（3）老龄化，遗传技术和未来。 受邀演讲者将来自学科，包括但不限于，哲学，伦理学，神学，老年学，社会学，人类学，心理学，医学和法律。 委托撰写的论文的目标是在理论和经验知识基础上开展讨论和新的经验研究。 每一次会议的会议记录将构成一卷编辑本的基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As our society continues to age, it struggles with a host of ethical issues with which previous generations were never confronted. Included are decisions about the extent to which succeeding generations should be responsible for one another, how care is provided and how decisions about end of life care are made, and how advances in genetic technology influence the kinds of lives we lead. This application requests support for three conferences designed to advance interdisciplinary research on aging and ethics. By providing a forum for scientists from diverse backgrounds and ethicists who are committed to understanding the intersection of aging and ethics to gather, a unique opportunity would exist for stimulating critical thinking, defining the salient questions that remain unanswered, and crafting the foundation for the next generation of empirical research studies to be conducted. Each conference would have an applied focus as it struggles with a major issue at the intersection of aging and ethics. Conference topics would include: (1) Responsibility and community across the generations, (2) End of life, and (3) Aging, genetic technology, and the future. Invited presenters would come from disciplines including, but not limited to, philosophy, ethics, theology, gerontology, sociology, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and law. Commissioned papers would have as their goal generating discussion and new empirical research based on theoretical and empirical knowledge bases. The proceedings from each of the conferences would form the basis of an edited volume.