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Slow cures and bad philosophers : essays on Wittgenstein, medicine, and bioethics /
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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.