A philosophical disease : bioethics, culture and identity
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A philosophical disease : bioethics, culture and identity
（Reflective bioethics）
Routledge, 1999
- : pbk
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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