Medical ethics, ordinary concepts and ordinary lives /
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| Author / Creator: | Cowley, Christopher, 1967- |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. |
| Description: | xv, 204 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7244134 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. A Critique of Mainstream Medical Ethics
- 1. Technical Language and Ordinary Language
- Fearless thinkers and monstrous thoughts
- Standing behind one's words
- Conceptual revision
- 2. Ways of Seeing
- The vegetarian and the carnivore
- Conscientious objection
- The limits to a philosopher's authority
- Part II. Matters of Birth and Life
- 3. The Place of Pregnancy and Birth in Human Lives
- Creation and flesh
- The problem with descriptions
- Learning to love
- 4. 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
- 5. The Abortion Debates
- Arbitrariness and potential
- Women and mothers
- Attitudes to life
- Proximity and authority
- 6. The Shape of a Life
- Dialogue
- Momentous decisions
- The change in the person
- Old age as the last chapter in the story
- Part III. Matters of Life and Death
- 7. The Problem of Suicide
- Horror and pity
- Diane Pretty
- The ethics of palliative care
- 8. Making Sense of Dementia
- The problem of personal identity
- Fear, pity and mockery
- 9. Human Bodies
- The Alder Hey scandal
- The post mortem
- 10. The Euthanasia Debates
- Futility, best interests and arbitrariness
- Implications of Keown's position
- The symbolic and the regulatory role of the law
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
