Medical ethics, ordinary concepts and ordinary lives /

Christopher Cowley.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Cowley, Christopher, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical description: xv, 204 pages ; 23 cm.

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ISBN:9780230506909 (hardback)
0230506909 (hardback)
Table of Contents:
A critique of mainstream medical ethics
Technical language and ordinary language
Fearless thinkers and monstrous thoughts
Standing behind one's words
Conceptual revision
Ethical reasoning and perception
The vegetarian and the carnivore
Conscientious objection
The limits to a philosopher's authority
Matters of birth and life
The place of pregnancy and birth in human lives
Creation and flesh
The problem with descriptions
Learning to love
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
The abortion debates
Arbitrariness and potential
Women and mothers
Attitudes to life
Proximity and authority
The shape of a life
Dialogicality
Momentous decisions
The change in the person
Old age as the last chapter in the story
Matters of life and death
The problem of suicide
Horror and pity
Diane pretty
The ethics of palliative care
Making sense of dementia
The problem of personal identity
Fear, pity and mockery
Human bodies
The Alder Hey scandal
The post mortem
The euthanasia debates
Futility, best interests, and arbitrariness
Implications of Keown's position
The symbolic and the regulatory role of the law.