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Elizabeth Anscombe's forthright philosophy speaks directly to many
religious and ethical issues of current concern. This collection of
her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed
"Human Life, Action and Ethics", published in 2005.
A distinguished team of contributors from the fields of medicine,
philosophy and law address some of the issues which arise over the
provision of care for dependent elderly patients. Some of the
chapters are concerned with the challenge of achieving good quality
medical care, the chronic inadequacies of policy making in the UK
context, and the prospects for improvement in the medium term.
Other chapters look at some of the threats to dependent elderly
patients posed by longer-term social and ideological trends which
find expression in proposals for age-limits to health care,
advocacy of living wills and euthanasia, arguments for withdrawing
tube-feeding from certain categories of patient, and certain
proposals for resource allocation. This interdisciplinary volume
will have a wide appeal to those involved in care of the dependent
elderly, to health policy analysts and health care economists, and
to bioethicists.
This thoughtful and compassionate account addresses some of the difficult ethical and medical issues raised in the provision of health care for the dependent elderly patient. Care of the dependent elderly is subject to conflicting priorities arising from the demands of patients, their relatives, the fair allocation of medical and financial resources, and the medical ethos to prolong life. A distinguished team of contributors, selected from the fields of medicine, philosophy, ethics, and law, discuss and critically evaluate these issues. This volume will provide a focus for further debate and interest in this important subject.
More treasures from the archive of papers left by philosopher
Elizabeth Anscombe, edited by her daughter and son-in-law,
philosophers Mary Geach and Luke Gormally.This volume collects a
number of published and unpublished papers by Elizabeth Anscombe in
which she engages with the thought of major philosophers of the
past. Philosophers featured include Plato, Anselm, Aquinas,
Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein.
Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 essay 'Modern Moral Philosophy'
contributed to the transformation of the subject from the late
1960s, reversing the trend to assume that there is no intrinsic
connection between facts, values, and reasons for action; and
directing attention towards the category of virtues. Her later
ethical writings were focused on particular ideas and issues such
as those of conscience, double-effect, murder, and sexual ethics.
In this collection of new essays deriving from a conference held in
Oxford these and other aspects of her moral philosophy are
examined. Anyone interested in Anscombe's work all want to read
this volume.
This is the first collection of essays by the celebrated
philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe since the publication of three
volumes of her papers in 1981. This new collection includes
articles published subsequent to those volumes and not hitherto
gathered, previously unpublished papers on human nature and
practical philosophy, together with the classic essay ?Modern Moral
Philosophy? and a few otherwise difficult to obtain early pieces
such as her Listener article ?Does Oxford Moral Philosophy Corrupt
the Youth The appearance of this volume is a major publishing
event.
This is the first collection of essays by the celebrated
philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe since the publication of three
volumes of her papers in 1981. This new collection includes a)
articles published subsequent to those volumes and not hitherto
gathered, b) previously unpublished papers on human nature and
practical philosophy, together with c) the classic essay "Modern
Moral Philosophy," and a few otherwise difficult to obtain early
pieces such as her Listener article "Does Oxford Moral Philosophy
Corrupt the Youth?." The appearance of this volume is a major
publishing event.
Elizabeth Anscombe's forthright philosophy speaks directly to many
religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of
her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed
Human Life, Action and Ethics published in 2005 (see below p.8).
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