03055nam 22006494a 450 991081958860332120090327080556.01-283-06218-697866130621850-8223-8126-510.1515/9780822381266(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 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 Tranoy.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/.2/01174.201Elliott Carl1961-1666042MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819588603321Slow cures and bad philosophers4025075UNINA