1993, ISBN: 9780415010818

Nov 15, 1993. Hardcover. Fair. FREE standard shipping worldwide, all orders upgraded to priority airmail (average delivery time for US, Europe, Japan is 6 working days). --- Acceptable … Mehr…

Nov 15, 1993. Hardcover. Fair. FREE standard shipping worldwide, all orders upgraded to priority airmail (average delivery time for US, Europe, Japan is 6 working days). --- Acceptable per Amazon rules due to the missing dust jacket. One very faint, very gentle narrow stain/grubby mark on page 31; a couple of tiny stains on lower side outer page edges (very slightly showing along a short length of side edge of p.20 inside the book). Else interior clean, bright, untanned, free of readily noticeable creasing, with unmarked text. Boards show faint fingermarks, a bit of scuffing, a bit of creasing along spine and to upper/lower spine ends; light wear to silver lettering. Mild spine lean. Hardcover, Routledge 1993, x + 219pp, NOT ex-library. Fast priority airmail from Ireland. --- The Elimination of Morality strikes at the root of the dominant conception of what medical ethics involves. It addresses the fundamental and timely question of the kind of contribution philosophers can make to the discussion of medico-moral issues and the work of health care professionals. It has two main objectives. The first is to establish the futility of bioethics. Anne Maclean challenges the conception of reason in ethics which is integral to the utilitarian tradition and which underlies the whole bioethical enterprise. She argues that the enterprise is philosophically misguided - philosophers do not possess moral expertise and have no special authority to pronounce upon moral issues. In particular, she shows that judgments about the morality of killing cannot be founded on a prior philosophical theory of the value of life. The final chapter demolishes the medical model of illness and health which give exaggerated powers to the doctor, and proposes a role for the philosopher in medical education which deprofessionalizes life and death decisions. The second objective is to expose the inadequacy of a utilitarian account of moral reasoning and moral life.<

1990, ISBN: 9780415010818

The Elimination of Morality combines a criticism of utilitarianism with an argument for the futility of bioethics. Anne Maclean challenges the conception of reason in ethics central to bo… Mehr…

The Elimination of Morality combines a criticism of utilitarianism with an argument for the futility of bioethics. Anne Maclean challenges the conception of reason in ethics central to both, and argues that a philosophical training confers no special authority to make pronouncements on moral issues. She proposes that pure utilitarianism eliminates the essential ingredients of moral thinking. Anne Maclean's part in publicising the controversy over academic standards in a Philosophy and Health Care MA led to her suspension in 1990 from the University of Swansea. Media > Book, [PU: Routledge]<

1993, ISBN: 9780415010818

Routledge, 1993-11-15. 1. Hardcover. Used:Good. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Ships Fast. 24*7 Customer Service., Routledge, 1993-11-15

1993, ISBN: 9780415010818

Hard cover, Good., Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations, black & white., London, England, [PU: Routledge]