Carl Elliott

A Philosophical Disease

Bioethics, Culture, and Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and novelists such as Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, "A Philosophical Disease" brings to the bioethical discussion larger philosophical questions about the sense and significance of human life. Carl Elliott moves beyond the standard menu of bioethical issues to explore the relationship of illness to identity, and of mental illness to spiritual illness. He also examines the treatment of children born with ambiguous genitalia, the claims of Deaf culture, and the morality of self-sacrifice. This book focuses on a different sensibility in bioethics; how we use concepts, and how they relate to our own particular social institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780415919401
• ISBN-10: 0415919401
• Artikelnr.: 22133823

Autorenporträt

Carl Elliott is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics. He is co-editor with John Lantos of The Last Physician and editor of Slow Cures andBad Philosophers, both forthcoming.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Notes of a Philosophical Scut Monkey: The Bureaucracy of Medical Ethics
Chapter 2 You Are What You Are Afflicted By: Pathology, Authenticity and Identity
Chapter 3 Lost at the Mall
or, The Use of Prozac in a Time of Normal Nihilism
Chapter 4 Puppet-Masters and Personality Disorders: Psychopathology, Determinism and Responsibility
Chapter 5 Nothing Matters: Depression and Competence in Clinical Research
Chapter 6 What's Wrong with Living Heart Transplantation?
Chapter 7 The Point of the Story: Narrative, Meaning and Final Justification
Chapter 8 A General Antitheory of Bioethics