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Die-hards.(Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society)(Book review)

American Prospect, The,  April, 2006  by Stone, Deborah

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TAKING CARE: ETHICAL CAREGIVING IN OUR AGING SOCIETY BY PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS 309 pages, free at www.bioethics.gov

WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH appointed the President's Council on Bioethics in 2001, he stacked it with conservatives who had already taken stands against abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, and assisted suicide. Nonetheless, I approached the council's sixth report, Taking Care, with an open mind after reading a column in The New York Times by David Brooks, who described the report as "a rebuke to the economic individualism of the right and ...

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