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Medical ethics, ordinary concepts and ordinary lives / Christopher Cowley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: xv, 204 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230506909
  • 9780230506909
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.2 22
LOC classification:
  • R724 .C8236 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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.
Summary: "Mainstream philosophical discussions of ethics usually involve either a search for a problem-solving theory (such as utilitarianism), or an exploration of ontological status (of things like obligations or reasons). This book will argue that such efforts are often misplaced. Instead, the proper starting point should always be the actual words and deeds of ordinary people in ordinary disagreements; for the ethical concepts in play can only derive their full meaning within the context of ordinary human lives. This will require a better understanding of the 'ordinary', and of what it means to lead a life."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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.

"Mainstream philosophical discussions of ethics usually involve either a search for a problem-solving theory (such as utilitarianism), or an exploration of ontological status (of things like obligations or reasons). This book will argue that such efforts are often misplaced. Instead, the proper starting point should always be the actual words and deeds of ordinary people in ordinary disagreements; for the ethical concepts in play can only derive their full meaning within the context of ordinary human lives. This will require a better understanding of the 'ordinary', and of what it means to lead a life."--Publisher description.

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