Science and Ethics of Aging Well

描述（由申请人提供）：随着我们社会的持续老龄化，它面临着许多前几代人从未遇到过的道德问题。包括决定后代应该对彼此负责的程度，如何提供护理以及如何做出关于临终护理的决定，以及基因技术的进步如何影响我们的生活方式。本申请要求支持三个旨在推进老龄化和伦理学跨学科研究的会议。通过为来自不同背景的科学家和伦理学家提供一个论坛，他们致力于理解老龄化与伦理学的交集，这将是一个独特的机会，可以激发批判性思维，定义尚未解决的突出问题，并为下一代的实证研究奠定基础。每次会议都有一个应用的焦点，因为它在老龄化和道德的交叉点上努力解决一个主要问题。会议的主题将包括：(1)跨代的责任和社区；(2)生命的终结；(3)老龄化、基因技术和未来。受邀的演讲者将来自各个学科，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。受委托撰写的论文将以产生讨论和基于理论和经验知识基础的新的实证研究为目标。每一次会议的会议记录将构成编辑卷的基础。

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.