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Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good

By Cathy Gere

Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good Medicine

Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good

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"Nature has placed Man under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure" (Jeremy Bentham, 1789). How should we act, tossed about as we are by these two? Should we, as the utilitarian would have it, maximize pleasure for the greatest number? This elegant intellectual and cultural history traces the birth of utilitarian thinking in the seventeenth century to today's evolutionary theory, economics, and neuroscience, fields that have recently been drawn together, once again, under the banner of utility. The author is attentive not only to its subtle reach but also to the single moment when, with the dawn of informed consent in medical research, an anti-utilitarian attention to autonomy briefly surfaced. This is an important book about the rise, fall, resurrection--and dangers--of utilitarian reasoning in medicine.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2017-10-19
Publication Date:
2017-10-19
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
022650185X
ISBN13:
9780226501857
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
541 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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