03031oam 22006254a 450 991078049940332120130510110247.01-283-06218-697866130621850-8223-8126-510.1515/9780822381266(CKB)111087028002184(EBL)1167636(SSID)ssj0000246822(PQKBManifestationID)11216315(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246822(PQKBWorkID)10190090(PQKB)11488742317321953(MiAaPQ)EBC1167636(OCoLC)1140674066(MdBmJHUP)muse79456(DE-B1597)554337(DE-B1597)9780822381266(OCoLC)1144273316(EXLCZ)9911108702800218420090327d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSlow cures and bad philosophers[electronic resource] essays on Wittgenstein, medicine, and bioethics /edited by Carl ElliottDurham, N.C. Duke University Press20011 online resource (209 p.)e-Duke books scholarly collectionDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-2646-9 0-8223-2657-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Tranöy.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 unfamiliare-Duke books scholarly collection.Medical ethicsPhilosophyBioethicsPhilosophyMedical ethicsPhilosophy.BioethicsPhilosophy.174/.2/01Elliott Carl1961-1565680NcDNcDBOOK9910780499403321Slow cures and bad philosophers3835577UNINA