Download or read book Facing Limits written by Gerald R. Winslow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in medical technology and the rapidly increasing population of older Americans are causing people to question the ethical limits of life-extending interventions. How do we weigh issues involving equity, efficiency, autonomy, natural life span, and responsibility for the financial burdens of health care for the elderly? In this collection o