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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780226501857
- Subject Area
- Philosophy, Science, Psychology, Medical, History
- Publication Name
- Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good : from the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Subject
- Modern / 20th Century, General, Modern / 19th Century, History, Movements / Utilitarianism
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Weight
- 20 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022650185X
ISBN-13
9780226501857
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038751846
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good : from the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Modern / 20th Century, General, Modern / 19th Century, History, Movements / Utilitarianism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, Science, Psychology, Medical, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2017-009044
Reviews
Gere begins this wise, fascinating and original book in Tuskegee, Alabama, where a large public-health experiment was launched back in 1932.... Gere, who is nothing if not courageous, sets out to show that the furor over the Tuskegee experiment was 'not a battle between good and evil, but rather a conflict between two conceptions of the good'. She defends her analysis over the next 300 pages or so in a series of masterclasses in the art of untying conceptual knots by means of astute historical analysis., "This is a fascinating, beautifully-written history with genuine political and philosophical bite. Like a balanced and cheerful Foucault, or a literary Adam Curtis, Cathy Gere offers us a graphic genealogy of modern ethical reasoning in its benevolence and its blindness. Pleasure, Pain, and the Common Good shows how the upheavals of the 20th century set the stage for the rise of "informed consent"-- respect for the autonomous choice and rights of the individual-- as the gold standard of medical ethics. But where some have seen autonomy emerging within an ethical void, Gere explores the changing political and scientific stakes of the utilitarian philosophy which provided the rationale for over two centuries of British and American medicine, tracing lines connecting Hobbes and Bentham to Sunstein's Nudge and Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. Despite the victory of informed consent, she shows how utilitarian ethics, "bloodied but unbowed," remains hardwired into medical policy. Gere grounds this doubled vision in architectures of surveillance and moral improvement, in the electric shocks and marshmallows of legendary experiments. Overflowing with lively characters and scenes, knotty puzzles and surprising laughs, this book is a sure spark for important discussions about how medicine justifies the pain it has provokes and the inequities it perpetuates. A gripping and eloquent, rigorous yet hopeful tour de force -- immensely rewarding reading for anyone touched by the moral and political power of modern medicine and science.", "This is a fascinating, beautifully-written history with genuine political and philosophical bite. Like a balanced and cheerful Foucault, or a literary Adam Curtis, Cathy Gere offers us a graphic genealogy of modern ethical reasoning in its benevolence and its blindness. Pleasure, Pain, and the Common Good shows how the upheavals of the 20th century set the stage for the rise of "informed consent"-- respect for the autonomous choice and rights of the individual-- as the gold standard of medical ethics. But where some have seen autonomy emerging within an ethical void, Gere explores the changing political and scientific stakes of its precursor: the utilitarian philosophy which provided the rationale for over two centuries of British and American medicine, and which connects Hobbes and Bentham to Sunstein's Nudge and Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. Despite the victory of informed consent, she shows how utilitarian ethics, "bloodied but unbowed," remains hardwired into medical policy. Gere grounds this doubled vision in architectures of surveillance and moral improvement, in the electric shocks and marshmallows of legendary experiments. Overflowing with lively characters and scenes, knotty puzzles and surprising laughs, this book is a sure spark for important discussions about how medicine justifies the pain it has provoked and the inequities it perpetuates. A gripping and eloquent, rigorous yet hopeful tour de force -- immensely rewarding reading for anyone touched by the moral and political power of modern medicine and science.", In this powerful, intelligent, and often disturbing book, Cathy Gere shows clearly how nineteenth-century models of human nature nourished terrifying medical crimes during the twentieth century. The history laid out here shows how the utilitarian tradition set up a stern calculus of maximizing what was imagined as general welfare at the cost of individual citizens' rights and survival, and how that tradition in newer guises underwrote mechanistic and behaviorist images of how humans function. By tracing the telling links between seemingly abstract philosophical and psychological arguments and the violence of large-scale medical trials during and after the Second World War, Gere offers a welcome and remarkably timely warning about the ways in which ethics, psychology, and biomedicine interact. This will be an indispensable guide for all informed citizens to the most current issues in medical testing and welfare policy., Gere's study of the path of utilitarianism in modern public and medical ethics is a model of readable, reasonable intellectual history., "This is a fascinating, beautifully-written history with genuine political and philosophical bite. Like a balanced and cheerful Foucault, or a literary Adam Curtis, Cathy Gere offers us a graphic genealogy of modern ethical reasoning in its benevolence and its blindness. Pleasure, Pain, and the Common Good shows how the upheavals of the 20th century set the stage for the rise of "informed consent"-- respect for the autonomous choice and rights of the individual-- as the gold standard of medical ethics. But where some have seen autonomy emerging within an ethical void, Gere explores the changing political and scientific stakes of its precursor: the utilitarian philosophy which provided the rationale for over two centuries of British and American medicine, and which connectsHobbes and Bentham to Sunstein's Nudge and Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. Despite the victory of informed consent, she shows how utilitarian ethics, "bloodied but unbowed," remains hardwired into medical policy. Gere grounds this doubled vision in architectures of surveillance and moral improvement, in the electric shocks and marshmallows of legendary experiments. Overflowing with lively characters and scenes, knotty puzzles and surprising laughs, this book is a sure spark for important discussions about how medicine justifies the pain it has provoked and the inequities it perpetuates. A gripping and eloquent, rigorous yet hopeful tour de force -- immensely rewarding reading for anyone touched by the moral and political power of modern medicine and science.", Cathy Gere has written a fundamental book. Her penetrating intellectual history of utilitarianism never loses sight of the real-world consequences of philosophical arguments, scientific theories, and medical policies, from Victorian poor laws to AIDS activism. Gere writes with verve and compassion about how the doctrines of pleasure and pain have become woven into the fabric of our lives, with unpredictable and sometimes dire consequences. This is urgent history, an account of the past that makes us rethink the present., ...a very well written and historically informed call for humanism in science and ethics that deserves a wider readership than specialists alone., In this thoroughly gripping science history of utilitarianism, Cathy Gere charts the trajectory of the ethical theory, which hinges on the 'greatest good for the greatest number'. . . . Gere's engrossing narrative takes us up to the 1973 hearings on the notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Study. For four decades, the US Public Health Service had observed the progression of the disease in hundreds of impoverished African American men, who were neither told they carried it nor given treatment. Medical claims of greater good were brought crashing down. Yet the study's ethos resurfaces in behavioural economics, through nudges that, without consent, shape the many in the mould of the few -- supposedly 'saving' us from some inherent irrationality. Gere rightly emphasizes that we should be wary of 'noble' ends justifying any means., Showing how 'utilitarianism and scientific medicine are deeply intertwined, interdependent, and to a great extent inseparable,' Gere looks at how modern medical subjects have been shaped by two competing value-systems: a liberal view championing individual rights, freedom and the notion of bodies as private property; and a utilitarian one that considers ends over means and human beings as brute battlegrounds for the clash between what in 1789 Jeremy Bentham, father of utilitarianism, described as human nature's 'two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure'...Gere effectively demonstrates the urgent bearing of historical inquiry that bridges the study of ideas with the record of lived, bodily experience.
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Table Of Content
Introduction Diving Into the Wreck 1 Trial of the Archangels 2 Epicurus at the Scaffold 3 Nasty, British, and Short 4 The Monkey in the Panopticon 5 In Which We Wonder Who Is Crazy 6 Epicurus Unchained Afterword The Restoration of the Monarchy Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
How should we weigh the costs and benefits of scientific research on humans? Is it right that a small group of people should suffer in order that a larger number can live better, healthier lives? Or is an individual truly sovereign, unable to be plotted as part of such a calculation? These are questions that have bedeviled scientists, doctors, and ethicists for decades, and in Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good , Cathy Gere presents the gripping story of how we have addressed them over time. Today, we are horrified at the idea that a medical experiment could be performed on someone without consent. But, as Gere shows, that represents a relatively recent shift: for more than two centuries, from the birth of utilitarianism in the eighteenth century, the doctrine of the greater good held sway. If a researcher believed his work would benefit humanity, then inflicting pain, or even death, on unwitting or captive subjects was considered ethically acceptable. It was only in the wake of World War II, and the revelations of Nazi medical atrocities, that public and medical opinion began to change, culminating in the National Research Act of 1974, which mandated informed consent. Showing that utilitarianism is based in the idea that humans are motivated only by pain and pleasure, Gere cautions that that greater good thinking is on the upswing again today and that the lesson of history is in imminent danger of being lost. Rooted in the experiences of real people, and with major consequences for how we think about ourselves and our rights, Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good is a dazzling, ambitious history., "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.
LC Classification Number
B843.G46 2017
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