A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity by Elliott, Carl

A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415919395)

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Format: Hardcover
$240.00
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A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity by Elliott, Carl

A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity

$240.00
A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity by Elliott, Carl

A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity

$240.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Carl Elliott
ISBN-10: 0415919398
ISBN-13: 9780415919395
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/18/1998
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.94d
By Carl Elliott
By Carl Elliott
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Carl Elliott is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics. He is co-editor with John Lantos of The Last Physician and editor of Slow Cures andBad Philosophers, both forthcoming.

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