Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers

Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
Herausgeber: Elliott, Carl

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Carl Elliott always writes intriguing essays at the intersection between ethics, medicine, and general philosophy, so it is a real pleasure to have a new installment in his continuing reflections on the fascinating problems that arise in this territory. Aside from anything else, he writes well for the general reader, who can enjoy and learn from his work."--Stephen Toulmin, University of Southern California

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326571
• ISBN-10: 0822326574
• Artikelnr.: 21811361

Autorenporträt

Carl Elliott, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Treating Bioethics / Carl Elliott
2. Religion, Superstition, and Medicine / James C. Edwards
3. Patient Multiplicity, Medical Rituals, and Good Dying: Some
Wittgensteinian Observations / Larry Churchill
4. “Unlike Calculating Rules?”: Clinical Judgment, Formalized Decision
Making, and Wittgenstein / James Lindemann Nelson
5. Wittgenstein’s Startling Claim: Consciousness and the Persistent
Vegetative State / Grant Gillett
6. Attitudes, Souls, and Persons: Children with Severe Neurological
Impairment / Carl Elliott
7. Why Wittgenstein’s Philosophy Should Not Prevent Us From Taking Animals
Seriously / David DeGrazia
8. Injustice and Animals / Cora Diamond
9. Bioethics, Wisdom, and Expertise / Paul Johnston
10. Wittgensteinian Lessons on Moral Particularism / Margaret Olivia Little
11. Wittgenstein: Personality, Philosophy, Ethics / Knut Erik Tranöy
Notes on Contributors
Index