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Author:   Carl Elliott
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780822326571

ISBN 10:   0822326574
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   29 June 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Treating Bioethics / Carl Elliott 2. Religion, Superstition, and Medicine / James C. Edwards 3. Patient Multiplicity, Medical Rituals, and Good Dying: Some Wittgensteinian Observations / Larry Churchill 4. Unlike Calculating Rules? : Clinical Judgment, Formalized Decision Making, and Wittgenstein / James Lindemann Nelson 5. Wittgenstein's Startling Claim: Consciousness and the Persistent Vegetative State / Grant Gillett 6. Attitudes, Souls, and Persons: Children with Severe Neurological Impairment / Carl Elliott 7. Why Wittgenstein's Philosophy Should Not Prevent Us From Taking Animals Seriously / David DeGrazia 8. Injustice and Animals / Cora Diamond 9. Bioethics, Wisdom, and Expertise / Paul Johnston 10. Wittgensteinian Lessons on Moral Particularism / Margaret Olivia Little 11. Wittgenstein: Personality, Philosophy, Ethics / Knut Erik Tranoey Notes on Contributors Index

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A startlingly original and very important collection of essays. Wittgenstein's insights should help the field move away from fruitless battles and back to what its business really is: deepening our shared understanding of what would count as better health care and policy. - Judith Andre, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers breaks new ground, contributing to a fresh understanding of familiar questions in and about bioethics. This is a high quality, useful work. - Martin Benjamin, author of Splitting the Difference: Compromise and Integrity in Ethics and Politics Carl Elliott always writes intriguing essays at the intersection between ethics, medicine and general philosophy, so it is a real pleasure to have a new installment in his continuing reflections on the fascinating problems that arise in this territory. Aside from anything else, he writes well for the general reader, who can learn and enjoy from his work. - Stephen Toulmin, University of Southern California

Author Information

Carl Elliott is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Philosophy at the Center for Bioethics, the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity and The Rules of Insanity: Moral Responsibility and Mental Illness, and coeditor of The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine, also published by Duke University Press.

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