Medical ethics, ordinary concepts, and ordinary lives
"The big issues of medical ethics are more in the news than ever before. And yet they remain as stubborn and often as incendiary as ever. This book claims that in an effort to deal with the issues, mainstream philosophers have arbitrarily omitted many ethically relevant features in order to red...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan
[2008]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- pt. 1. A critique of mainstream medical ethics
- 1. Technical language and ordinary language
- Fearless thinkers and monstrous thoughts
- Standing behind one's words
- Conceptual revision
- 2. Ways of seeing
- The vegetarian and the carnivore
- Conscientious objection
- The limits to a philosopher's authority
- pt. 2. Matters of birth and life
- 3. The place of pregnancy and birth in human lives
- Creation and flesh
- The problem with descriptions
- Learning to love
- 4. The clash of perspectives
- Individuals and uniqueness
- Responses to Warnock, Harris and Glover
- The paradox of non-directive counselling
- Resource allocation and the clash of perspectives
- 5. The abortion debates
- Arbitrariness and potential
- Women and mothers
- Attitudes to life
- Proximity and authority
- 6. The shape of a life
- Dialogue
- Momentous decisions
- The change in the person
- Old age as the last chapter in the story
- pt. 3. Matters of life and death
- 7. The problem of suicide
- Horror and pity
- Diane Pretty
- The ethics of palliative care
- 8. Making sense of dementia
- The problem of personal identity
- Fear, pity and mockery
- 9. Human bodies
- The Alder Hey scandal
- The post mortem
- 10. The euthanasia debates
- Futility, best interests and arbitrariness
- Implications of Keown's position
- The symbolic and the regulatory role of the law
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
