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Medical ethics, ordinary concepts and ordinary lives

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Medical ethics, ordinary concepts and ordinary livesChristopher Cowley.
Author:	Cowley, Christopher,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
Description:	xv, 204 p.
Subject:	Medical ethics.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230591561

Medical ethics, ordinary concepts and ordinary lives
Cowley, Christopher,1967-

Medical ethics, ordinary concepts and ordinary lives[electronic resource] /Christopher Cowley. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - xv, 204 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.

Acknowledgements --pt. 1. A

The big issues of medical ethics are more in the news that 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 arbitarily omitted many ethically relevant features in order to reduce them to more tractable technical puzzles. The most gratuitous omissions have been the patient's point of view on the problem, the patient's ordinary life that provides the wider context for his point of view, and the ordinary language and concepts by which the patienttries to make sense of the issue. In trying to rectify these omissions, the book is not offering an alternative theory that would generate policy-guiding solutions, but instead a nuanced examination of what it means to be human and to struggle with the mysteries of birth, life and death.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230591561

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230591561doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

195041
Medical ethics.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: R724 / .C8236 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 174.2

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2008 A-269

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505 0 0 $t Acknowledgements -- $t Introduction -- $g pt. 1. A $t critique of mainstream medical ethics -- $g 1. $t Technical language and ordinary language -- $t Fearless thinkers and monstrous thoughts -- $t Standing behind one's words -- $t Conceptual revision -- $g 2. $t Ways of seeing -- $g The $t vegetarian and the carnivore -- $t Conscientious objection -- $g The $t limits to a philosopher's authority -- $g pt. 2. $t Matters of birth and life -- $g 3. The $t place of pregnancy and birth in human lives -- $t Creation and flesh -- $g The $t problem with descriptions -- $t Learning to love -- $g 4. The $t clash of perspectives -- $t Individuals and uniqueness -- $t Responses to Warnock, Harris and Glover -- $g The $t paradox of non-directive counselling -- $t Resource allocation and the clash of perspectives -- $g 5. The $t abortion debates -- $t Arbitrariness and potential -- $t Women and mothers -- $t Attitudes to life -- $t Proximity and authority -- $g 6. The $t shape of a life -- $t Dialogue -- $t Momentous decisions -- $g The $t change in the person -- $t Old ageasthe last chapter in the story -- $g pt. 3. $t Matters of life and death-- $g 7. The $t problem of suicide -- $t Horror and pity -- $t Diane Pretty -- $g The $t ethics of palliative care -- $g 8. $t Making sense of dementia -- $g The $t problem of personal identity -- $t Fear, pity and mockery -- $g 9. $t Human bodies -- $g The $t Alder Hey scandal -- $g The $t post mortem -- $g 10. The $t euthanasia debates -- $t Futility, best interests andarbitrariness -- $t Implications of Keown's position -- $g The $t symbolic and the regulatory role of thelaw -- $t Notes -- $t Bibliography -- $t Index.
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