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.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
2006 |
First published: |
2006 |
Authors: |
Andrew Stark
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 157 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
264 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-85631-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
General
|
LSN: |
0-521-85631-0 |
Barcode: |
9780521856317 |
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