Slow cures and bad philosophers : essays on Wittgenstein, medicine, and bioethics / / edited by Carl Elliott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819588603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 1-283-06218-6; 9786613062185; 0-8223-8126-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Collana: e-Duke books scholarly collection
• Altri autori (Persone): ElliottCarl <1961->
• Disciplina: 174/.2/01; 174.201
• Soggetti: Medical ethics - Philosophy; Bioethics - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Treating bioethics / Carl Elliott -- Religion, superstition, and medicine / James C. Edwards -- Patient multiplicity, medical rituals, and good dying : some Wittgensteinian oberservations [sic] / Larry Churchill -- "Unlike calculating rules"? Clinical judgment, formalized decision making, and Wittgenstein / James Lindemann Nelson -- Wittgenstein's startling claim : consciousness and the persistent vegetative state / Grant Gillett -- Attitudes, souls, and persons : children with severe neurological impairment / Carl Elliott -- Why Wittgenstein's philosophy should not prevent us from taking animals seriously / David DeGrazia -- Injustice and animals / Cora Diamond -- Bioethics, wisdom, and expertise / Paul Johnston -- Wittgensteinian lessons on moral particularism / Margaret Olivia Little -- Wittgenstein : personality, philosophy, ethics / Knut Erik Tranoy.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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