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The Ethics of Sex and Alzheimer's.
A growing epidemic, Alzheimer's punishes not only its victims but also those married to them. This book analyzes how Alzheimer's is quietly transforming the way we think about love today. Without meaning to become rebels, many people who find themselves ""married to Alzheimer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; CopyrightPage; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction: Married to Alzheimer's; 1. Sexual Entitlement: Marriage is for Sex and Sex is for Marriage; Conjugal Rights; A Morality Play on Conjugal Rights; Papal Involvement in Sexless Marriages; Impotence; Captivity; Sex and the Limits of Marriage; 2. Selflessness: Opting to Live without Sex While Still Married; An Overview of Religious Thinking; An Overview of Some Protestant Thinking; Selfishness; Loneliness; Suicide; Miracle Cures; Moral Ideals; Even Selfless Spouses Deserve Sex; 3. Sex with Strangers.
- Once Spouses, Now StrangersThe Importance of Knowing a Person; Literary Examples; Immoral, Illegal, or Both?; A Case Study; The Appeal of Sex with a Stranger; What Does Under-Enforcement Mean?; Legal, Maybe, But Still Perverse?; Sexual Strangeness and Alzheimer's; 4. Senior Sex and Disgust; The Sexual Urge; Disgust; After Disgust, Loneliness; Hebrew Home for the Aged; Twenty-First-Century Litigation in the United States; Some day, the Tables May Turn; 5. Desertion; Desertion of Children; Desertion After Dating; Desertion of Spouses; Unintentional Desertion; Conclusion.
- 6. The Sexually Deprived in American PrisonsPrisons and Conjugal Visits; Rape in Prison; Rape in Prison: A Duty to Know?; Current State Policies: Heterosexual; Conjugal Visits for Homosexuals; Indifference as "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"; Living Without Intimacy is Hard, But Who Cares?; 7. Film and Fiction as Moral Cues; The Morality of Stories; Aging as Personal Tragedy; Stories about Mature People in Love and Lust; Crossing to Safety; Love Among the Ruins; Innocence; Beginners; Something's Gotta Give; Lovely, Still; Narratives about Romance and Alzheimer's; The Notebook; Away from Her.
- ¿Y Tú, Quién Eres? (And You, Who Are You?)Still Alice; Moral Cues Taken from Screen and Page; 8. Sexual Generosity; Justice O'Connor as Moral Pioneer; The Profile of a Sexually Generous Person; Marital Sexual Generosity; Looking for Generosity: Two Problems; Pre-marital Sexual Generosity; Marriage Vows of the Sexually Generous; Ethics for ""Adulterers"; Sexual Generosity: Only for Alzheimer's?; Conclusion: Love After Alzheimer's; Acknowledgments; Appendix; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.