Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers : Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics

他們的目的不是要審視Wittgenstein的個人道德信念，而是要探索深入參與他的工作如何能闡明醫學和生物科學所呈現的一些問題。正如Elliott在他介紹中所解釋的那樣，Wittgenstein的哲學與大多數當代生物倫理學獎學金背道而馳，這種學術往往忽略了道德問題所處的背景，並且很少關注敘事、民族志和臨床案例研究以提出生命倫理判斷。這種匿名的，非個人的，規則寫作指令，其中建議醫護人員如何表現，這是該卷打算去除的。

相反，貢獻者強調道德問題具體細節的價值，並寫出Wittgenstein認為哲學應該有用的精神。具體主題包括“良好的死亡”概念、臨床決策的性質、神經損傷患者的治療、動物的道德治療以及道德特殊主義的挑戰。受到一位對“專業哲學”感到遺憾的哲學家的啟發，這項工作為現代醫學現實所帶來的當代倫理問題帶來了一些驚人的見解和澄清。貢獻者。

Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled in this volume pay particular attention to Wittgenstein's concern with the thick context of moral problems, his suspicion of theory, and his belief in description as the real aim of philosophy.

Their aim is not to examine Wittgenstein's personal moral convictions but rather to explore how a deep engagement with his work can illuminate some of the problems that medicine and biological science present. As Elliott explains in his introduction, Wittgenstein's philosophy runs against the grain of most contemporary bioethics scholarship, which all too often ignores the context in which moral problems are situated and pays little attention to narrative, ethnography, and clinical case studies in rendering bioethical judgments. Such anonymous, impersonal, rule-writing directives in which health care workers are advised how to behave is what this volume intends to counteract.

Instead, contributors stress the value of focusing on the concrete particulars of moral problems and write in the spirit of Wittgenstein's belief that philosophy should be useful. Specific topics include the concept of "good dying," the nature of clinical decision making, the treatment of neurologically damaged patients, the moral treatment of animals, and the challenges of moral particularism. Inspired by a philosopher who deplored "professional philosophy," this work brings some startling insights and clarifications to contemporary ethical problems posed by the realities of modern medicine.Contributors.

Larry Churchill, David DeGrazia, Cora Diamond, James Edwards, Carl Elliott, Grant Gillett, Paul Johnston, Margaret Olivia Little, James Lindemann Nelson, Knut Erik Tranoy

  Carl Elliott  (Autor)

Publisher:Duke University Press Books 

ISBN:    978-0822326465 

原價   US 18.95 台幣價 NT$740