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The limits of medicine

cure or enhancement

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.

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2006, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: reversing our lenses
Between the normal and the ideal
A visit to the Kantian doctor
Cultural spouses, cultural siblings
Conclusion
Notes to introduction and part I
Notes to part II, part III and conclusion.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York, NY

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
610/.1
Library of Congress
R723 .S755 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL3401318M
ISBN 10
0521856310, 0521672260
ISBN 13
9780521856317, 9780521672269
LCCN
2005015859
Library Thing
2770991
Goodreads
1553451
4624138

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