Titlebook: Medical Ethics, Ordinary Concepts and Ordinary Lives; Ordinary Concepts, O Christopher Cowley Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of M

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Technical Language and Ordinary Languageion of argument from each, a section that in each case, I believe, exemplifies their overall approach. While I am aware of the risks involved in taking such narrow selections, they are worth running because of the limitations of space and because of the depth to which I want to pursue my critique.

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The Place of Pregnancy and Birth in Human Livesch about trying to identify what the word ‘miracle’ refers to, but rather of how the concept is used to capture some aspect of the user’s . of the birth of a child beyond the expression of an attitude. This will lead to a more general discussion of the important place of pregnancy and birth in human lives.

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The Problem of Suicidecases involving terminal illness and/or great unrelievable suffering (or the prospect of great suffering), be rational. Either way it is worth examining because it reveals an important dimension of the meaning of death in our society. It will also be essential for our discussion of euthanasia in Chapter 10.

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Making Sense of Dementiaife, and she does not seem to have any pleasures beyond the infantile. Most importantly of all, however, she seems to the researcher to be one of the happiest people he has ever met: she does not seem to show signs of depression or even of longer term frustration.

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proper starting point should be the words and deeds of ordinary people in ordinary disagreements - the ethical concepts in play can only derive full meaning within the context of ordinary human lives.978-1-349-35318-7978-0-230-59156-1

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Technical Language and Ordinary Language) and Jeff McMahon’s . (2002). Both are faithful representatives of the field. . is still considered the main textbook on the subject, and its fifth edition was published in 2001. McMahon’s book is an enormously detailed and rigorous analysis of the arguments for and against abortion and euthanasia,

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Ways of Seeingsituations, as contrasted with the theoretical conclusions of moral philosophers. I admitted that my approach seemed too intuitionist, and this led to the problem of accounting for and resolving ethical disagreement. In the first section of this chapter, therefore, I would like to examine the phenom

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