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Explores issue of how we should think about postmodern bioethics and suggests that many of the questions that bioethicists pose as problematic in postmodernity are, in fact, reactions to Wittgensteinian thought-- yet bioethicists as a rule are unfamiliar

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Treating Bioethics -- 2 Religion, Superstition, and Medicine -- 3 Patient Multiplicity, Medical Rituals, and Good Dying: Some Wittgensteinian Observations -- 4 ''Unlike Calculating Rules''? Clinical Judgment, Formalized Decision Making, andWittgenstein -- 5 Wittgenstein's Startling Claim: Consciousness and the Persistent Vegetative State -- 6 Attitudes, Souls, and Persons: Children with Severe Neurological Impairment -- 7 Why Wittgenstein's Philosophy Should Not Prevent Us from Taking Animals Seriously -- 8 Injustice and Animals -- 9 Bioethics,Wisdom, and Expertise -- 10 Wittgensteinian Lessons on Moral Particularism -- 11 Wittgenstein: Personality, Philosophy, Ethics -- Notes on Contributors -- Index