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Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers
Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
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Edited by:
Carl Elliott
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With contributions by:
James C. Edwards
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
About this book
Explores issue of how we should think about postmodern bioethics and suggests that many of the questions that bioethicists pose as problematic in postmodernity are, in fact, reactions to Wittgensteinian thought-- yet bioethicists as a rule are unfamiliar
Author / Editor 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.
Reviews
“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
“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 André, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University
“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 enjoy and learn from his work.”—Stephen Toulmin, University of Southern California
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eBook published on:
June 29, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780822381266
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