Medical ethics, ordinary concepts, and ordinary lives
Chris Cowley
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Medical ethics, ordinary concepts, and ordinary lives / Chris Cowleyبيانات النشر
هاوندمیلز : Palgrave Macmillan، 2008مالمواصفات الشكلية
xv, 204 p.; 21 cm.الموضوع
Medical ethicsاللغة
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and index.
المحتويات
A critique of mainstream medical ethics -- Technical language and ordinary language -- Fearless thinkers and monstrous thoughts -- Standing behind one's words -- Conceptual revision -- Ethical reasoning and perception -- The vegetarian and the carnivore -- Conscientious objection -- The limits to a philosopher's authority -- Matters of birth and life -- The place of pregnancy and birth in human lives -- Creation and flesh -- The problem with descriptions -- Learning to love -- 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 -- The abortion debates -- Arbitrariness and potential -- Women and mothers -- Attitudes to life -- Proximity and authority -- The shape of a life -- Dialogicality -- Momentous decisions -- The change in the person -- Old age as the last chapter in the story -- Matters of life and death -- The problem of suicide -- Horror and pity -- Diane pretty -- The ethics of palliative care -- Making sense of dementia -- The problem of personal identity -- Fear, pity and mockery -- Human bodies -- The Alder Hey scandal -- The post mortem -- The euthanasia debates -- Futility, best interests, and arbitrariness -- Implications of Keown's position -- The symbolic and the regulatory role of the law