Lindemann Nelson Meaning and Medicine

A Reader in the Philosophy of Health Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-77196-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

A chief aim of this resource is to rekindle interest in seeing health care not solely as a set of practices so problematic as to require ethical analysis by philosophers and other scholars, but as a field whose scrutiny is richly rewarding for the traditional concerns of philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindemann Nelson, Hilde

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section I. Metaphysics
Introduction
Readings
1: "On the Distinction Between Disease and Illness,"Christopher Boorse
Chapter 2: "The Disease of Masturbation: Values and the Concept of Disease,"
H. Tristram Englehardt
Chapter 3: "Free Will and the Genome Project," P. S. Greenspan
Chapter 4: "(In)Equality, (Ab)Normality and the ADA," Anita Silvers
Chapter 5: "Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy," Rebecca Dresser
Section II. Epistemology
Introduction
Readings
6: "Knowing and Acting in Medical Practice: The Epistemological Politics of Outcomes Research," Sandra Tanenbaum
Chapter 7: "Clinical Judgment, Expert Programs, and Cognitive Style: A Counter-Essay in the Logic of Diagnosis," Marx Wartofsky
Chapter 8: "The Role of Decision Analysis in Informed Consent: Choosing Between Intuition and Systematicity," P.A. Ubel and G. Lowenstein
Chapter 9: "Incommensurability: Its Implications for the Patient/Physician Relationship,"
Robert Veatch and William Stempsey
Chapter 10: "Knowledge at the Bedside: A Feminist View of What's Happening to This Patient,"
Hilde Lindemann Nelson
Section III. Ethics
Introduction
Readings
Chap 11: "How Medicine Saved the Life of Ethics," Stephen Toulmin
Chapter 12: "Getting Down to Cases: The Revival of Casuistry in Bioethics," John Arras
Chapter 13: "The 'Four-principles' Approach," Tom Beauchamp
Chapter 14:, "A Critique of Principlism," K. Danner Clouser andBernard Gert
Chapter 15: "Moving Forward in Bioethical Theory: Theories, Cases and Specified Principlism,"
David DeGrazia
Chapter 16: "From the Ethicist's Point of View: The Literary Nature of Ethical Inquiry,"
Tod Chambers
Chapter 17: "Why a Feminist Approach to Bioethics?," Margaret Little
Section IV. Social Philosophy
Introduction
Readings
18: "Health Care Needs and Distributive Justice," Norman Daniels
Chapter 19: "Moral Justice and Legal Justice in Managed Care: The Ascent of Contributive Justice,"
E. Havvi Morreim
Chapter 20: "Meeting the Challenge of Justice and Rationing," Norman Daniels, Frances Kamm, Eric Rakowski, John Broome, Mary Anne Bailey
Chapter 21: "Justice in the Allocation of Health Care Resources: A Feminist Account,"
Hilde Lindemann Nelson and James Lindemann Nelson
Section V. Postmodernity
Introduction
Readings
22: "Medical Practice and Social Authority," Robert B. Pippin
Chapter 23: "Christian Science, Rational Choice and Alternative World Views,"
Peggy DesAutels
Chapter 24: "'Ambiguous Sex' or Ambivalent Medicine? Ethical Issues in The Treatment of Intersexuality," Alice Domurat Dregner
Chaper 25: "Keeping Moral Spaces Open," Margaret Walker
Chapter 26: "Letting the Deaf Be Deaf: Reconsidering the Use of Cochlear Implants in Prelingually Deaf Children," Robert A. Crouch
Chapter 27: "Research Bioethics in the Ugandan Context: A Program Summary," Sana Loue, David Okello, Medi Kawuma

Über Autor(innen)

James Lindemann Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. Hilde Lindemann Nelson is Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is editor of Feminism and Families (Routledge 1997). They are the authors of The Patient in the Family (Routledge 1995) and Alzheimer's: Answers to Hard Questions for Families (1996).