What are the final limits of medicine? What should we not try to cure medically, even if we had the necessary financial resources and technology? This book philosophically addresses these questions by examining two mirror-image debates in tandem. Members of certain groups, who are deemed by traditional standards to have a medical condition, such as deafness, obesity, or anorexia, argue that they have created their own cultures and ways of life. Curing their conditions would be a form of genocide. Members of other groups are seeking to provide medical treatment to what would conventionally be deemed 'cultural conditions'. Mild neurotics who take anti-depressants to elevate their mood, runners who use steroids, or men and women seeking cosmetic surgery are asking for medical treatment for problems that might be solved culturally, by changing norms, pressures, or expectations in the broader culture. Each of these two debates endeavors to locate medicine's final frontier and to articulate what it is that we should not treat medically even if we could. This volume analyzes what these two contemporary debates have to say to each other and thus offers a new way of determining medicine's final limits.
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What are the final limits of medicine? What should we not try to cure medically, even if we had the necessary financial resources and technology? This book philosophically addresses these questions by examining two mirror-image debates in tandem.
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Andrew Stark is professor of strategic management and political science at the University of Toronto. From 1985-1989, he was a policy advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada and has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institute, a Fellow at the Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions, and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He is the author of Conflict of Interest in American Public Life and, with Michael David, Conflict of Interest in the Professions.
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When it comes to determining whether a condition is a medical one, philosophers such as Leon Kass or Christopher Boorse advance an essentially biological approach. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plain facial features, black racial features, cultural spouses, more genuine alternative, cure for mild depression, white racial features, individual genuineness, cultural siblings, physical slowness, metaphorical blackness, literal blackness, legitimate cure, depressive mental state, same cultural experiences, social normality, group harboring, phenotypic condition, genocide argument, cure substitutes, polar ideal, mere enhancement, struggle substitutes, beautiful facial features, skewed curve, literal blindness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Michael Jackson, Brian Barry, Carl Elliott, Donovan Bailey, Thin Fat People, Glenn Gould, Maurice Berger, Georgina Kleege, Lawrence Blum, Linford Christie, Roseanne Barr, Barry Bonds, Boston Marathon, Christopher Boorse, Fat Fat People, Kathy Davis, Leon Kass, Naomi Schor, Rita Freedman, Stephen Talty, Toni Morrison New!
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When it comes to determining whether a condition is a medical one, philosophers such as Leon Kass or Christopher Boorse advance an essentially biological approach. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plain facial features, black racial features, cultural spouses, more genuine alternative, cure for mild depression, white racial features, individual genuineness, cultural siblings, physical slowness, metaphorical blackness, literal blackness, legitimate cure, depressive mental state, same cultural experiences, social normality, group harboring, phenotypic condition, genocide argument, cure substitutes, polar ideal, mere enhancement, struggle substitutes, beautiful facial features, skewed curve, literal blindness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Michael Jackson, Brian Barry, Carl Elliott, Donovan Bailey, Thin Fat People, Glenn Gould, Maurice Berger, Georgina Kleege, Lawrence Blum, Linford Christie, Roseanne Barr, Barry Bonds, Boston Marathon, Christopher Boorse, Fat Fat People, Kathy Davis, Leon Kass, Naomi Schor, Rita Freedman, Stephen Talty, Toni Morrison New!
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- Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness by Leon Kass on 4 pages
- Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliott on 4 pages
- Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon on 4 pages
- What Sort of People Should There Be? (Pelican) by Jonathan Glover in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beauty Bound by Rita Freedman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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