Medical ethics, ordinary concepts, and ordinary lives
"The big issues of medical ethics are more in the news than ever before. And yet they remain as stubborn and often as incendiary as ever. This book claims that in an effort to deal with the issues, mainstream philosophers have arbitrarily omitted many ethically relevant features in order to red...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan
[2008]
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45657026*spi |
| Sumario: | "The big issues of medical ethics are more in the news than ever before. And yet they remain as stubborn and often as incendiary as ever. This book claims that in an effort to deal with the issues, mainstream philosophers have arbitrarily omitted many ethically relevant features in order to reduce the central problems to more tractable technical puzzles. The most gratuitous omissions have been the patient's point of view on the problem; the patient's ordinary life, which provides the wider context for his point of view; and the ordinary language and concepts by which the patient tries to make sense of the problem. In trying to rectify these omissions, the book is offering not an alternative theory that would generate policy-guiding solutions, but instead a nuanced examination of what it means to be human and to struggle with the mysteries of birth, life and death."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | xv, 204 páginas ; 23 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 198-200) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780230506909 |
