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Death

A Reader

By: Mary Ann G. Cutter

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Despite the fact that we all die, humans do not share the same view of death. In Death: A Reader, Mary Ann G. Cutter explores prominent themes that emerge and reemerge in the history of ideas regarding the nature of death from prominent global perspectives that span ancient to contemporary discussions. Thirteen themes are presented in order to convey a sense of major views of death that are found in the philosophical and sacred literature of Asia, the Near and Middle East, and the West. Each chapter contains the context of the theme, primary source selections, reflections, and suggestions for further reading. Four features of this volume distinguish it from other philosophical texts on death. First, Cutter provides a culturally diverse selection of primary source readings on the nature of death. Second, along with the more traditional discussions of death, she provides discussion on emerging topics in death studies--namely, medical immortality and digital immortality. Third, she presents some of the key ethical issues regarding death, notably suicide, treatment refusal, and physician-assisted suicide, through the lens of the nature of death. Finally, she offers engaging practical exercises that challenge readers to think through their own personal and legal wishes regarding death and dying.

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0268100527

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Thinking Through Breast Cancer

A Philosophical Exploration of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survival

By: Mary Ann G. Cutter

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Thinking Through Breast Cancer

A Philosophical Exploration of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survival

By: Mary Ann G. Cutter

Anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer recognizes that cancer raises a host of questions concerning its nature and how we treat it. Such questions frame the difficult decisions that patients must make about their treatment and care. Thinking Through Breast Cancer is a philosophical investigation of how breast cancer is described, explained, evaluated, and socialized in medicine. Written by a breast cancer survivor, the book interweaves personal experience with a systematic breakdown of key and highly pertinent philosophical concepts, and brings to light insights that emerge in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and bioethics. Further, it is an investigation of the ethical implications of understanding breast cancer. Cutter seamlessly combines clinical information with philosophical analysis and makes recommendations as to how we can navigate the complex and, at times, uncertain terrain of breast cancer knowledge and care. In this way, the book is not simply a survey of what we know about breast cancer, but a personal search for guidance about navigating the complex, confusing, and frightening terrain of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survival.

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Oxford University Press

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0190637056

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An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Mary Ann G. Cutter

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An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Mary Ann G. Cutter

This book explores the ethical implications of managing uncertainty in clinical decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic. It develops an ethics of clinical uncertainty that brings together insights from the clinical and biomedical ethical literatures. The book sets out to recognize the central role uncertainty plays in clinical decision-making and to acknowledge the different levels, kinds, and dimensions of clinical uncertainty. It also aims to aid clinicians and patients in managing clinical uncertainty and to recognize the ethical duty they have to manage clinical uncertainty. The book addresses four ethical duties related to clinical uncertainty: (1) to advance the welfare of those in clinical medicine, (2) to respect the rights of those in clinical medicine, (3) to promote just access to health care, and (4) to care for one another in clinical medicine. These duties took on select urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic because clinical risk assessments about COVID-19 were limited, we were asked to give informed consent in the context of limited and changing knowledge, the pandemic unearthed myriad problems about the distribution of health care, and the pandemic raised questions about how we care for each other in medicine. An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty will appeal to scholars, advanced students, and medical professionals working in philosophy of medicine, biomedical ethics, clinical medicine, nursing, public health care, and gerontology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003857736

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9781003857730

Reframing Disease Contextually

By: Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

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Reframing Disease Contextually

By: Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

This volume will be of interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers, medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policymakers. The book provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease. It includes case studies of e.g. AIDS, genetic disease, and gendered disease.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401701555

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The Ethics of Gender-specific Disease

By: Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

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The Ethics of Gender-specific Disease

By: Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related bioethical discourses are philosophically integrative. Gender-specific disease is integrative because the descriptive roles of gender, disease, and their relation are inextricably tied to their prescriptive roles within frames of reference. While the text mainly focuses on gender-specific diseases that affect women, Cutter also includes examples involving men, children, and members of the LGBT community.

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Routledge

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0415509971

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Thinking Through Breast Cancer

A Philosophical Exploration of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survival

By: Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

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Thinking Through Breast Cancer

A Philosophical Exploration of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survival

By: Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

Thinking Through Breast Cancer is a philosophical analysis of breast cancer inspired by the author's journey as a breast cancer patient. It sets out to show the relevancy of philosophical thinking in medicine today and shares advice about how to navigate the uncertainty of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survival.

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An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Mary Ann G. Cutter

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Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

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The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

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Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the development of clinical curricula. In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related bioethical discourses are philosophically integrative. Gender-specific disease is integrative because the descriptive roles of gender, disease, and their relation are inextricably tied to their prescriptive roles within frames of reference. An integrative account of gender-specific disease carries ethical implications because our understanding of gender-specific disease is evaluative, and our evaluations of gender-specific disease entail judgments concerning the praiseworthiness and blameworthiness of a clinical event. Cutter supports a "both/and" emphasis on context and integration in relation to gender-specific disease and bioethical analyses. While the text mainly focuses on gender-specific diseases that affect women, Cutter also includes examples involving men, children, and members of the LGBT community.

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The Ethics of Gender-specific Disease

By: Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

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Death

Death

Thinking Through Breast Cancer

Thinking Through Breast Cancer

An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty

An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty

Reframing Disease Contextually

Reframing Disease Contextually

The Ethics of Gender-specific Disease

The Ethics of Gender-specific Disease

Thinking Through Breast Cancer

Thinking Through Breast Cancer

An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty

An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty

The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

The Ethics of Gender-specific Disease

The Ethics of Gender-specific Disease

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