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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and novelists such as Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, A Philosophical Disease brings to the bioethical d

What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be considered simply in biological terms,

The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence. Like death, illness raises important philosophical issues. But unlike death, i