Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
by Carl Elliott (Editor)
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Explores issue of how we should think about postmodern bioethics and suggests that many of the questions that bioethicists pose as problematic in postmodernity are, in fact, reactions to Wittgensteinian thought-- yet bioethicists as a rule are unfamiliarTags
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Carl Elliott is a professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. His work has appeared, in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Believer, and Slate. He is the author or editor of six previous books, including Better Than Well and Prozac as a Way of Life.
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- What would Ludwig Wittgenstein have made of professional bioethics?
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)That is what I have in mind when borrowing the Augustinian confession about joy at the possession of truth.
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