Elliott Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers

Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8126-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Explores issue of how we should think about postmodern bioethics and suggests that many of the questions that bioethicists pose as problematic in postmodernity are, in fact, reactions to Wittgensteinian thought-- yet bioethicists as a rule are unfamiliar

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elliott, Carl

Weitere Mitwirkende

Edwards, James C.

Churchill, Larry R.

Nelson, James Lindemann

Gillett, Grant

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Elliott is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Philosophy at the Center for Bioethics, the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity and The Rules of Insanity: Moral Responsibility and Mental Illness, and coeditor of The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine, also published by Duke University Press.