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Look Inside The Limits of Medicine

The Limits of Medicine

Author: Andrew Stark, University of Toronto

Date Published: January 2006
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521672269

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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. 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.
- The topic is timely because of new and anticipated breakthroughs in medicine and timeless because of the moral issues implicated
- Deals specifically with issues of deep interest to a number of identifiable communities
- Offers a new way of determining what medicine's final limits should be
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Product details
- Date Published: January 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521672269
- length: 264 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.361kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: reversing our lenses
1. Between the normal and the ideal
2. A visit to the Kantian doctor
3. Cultural spouses, cultural siblings
Conclusion.
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Andrew Stark, University of Toronto
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.