House and philosophy : everybody lies /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jacoby, Henry Owen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2009]
Series:Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • "Humanity is overrated" : House on life
  • Selfish, base animals crawling across the earth : House and the meaning of life / Henry Jacoby
  • House and Sartre : "hell is other people" / Jennifer L. McMahon
  • Is there a superman in the House? : a Nietzschean point of view / David Goldblatt
  • House and moral luck / Jane Dryden
  • "Welcome to the end of the thought process" : House's logic and method
  • The logic of guesswork in Sherlock Holmes and House / Jerold J. Abrams
  • It explains everything! / Barbara Anne Stock
  • The sound of one House clapping : the unmannerly doctor as Zen rhetorician / Jeffrey C. Ruff and Jeremy Barris
  • "Being nice is overrated" : House and Socrates on the necessity of conflict / Melanie Frappier
  • Is there a daoist in the House? / Peter Vernezze
  • "It is the nature of medicine that you are going to screw up" : House and ethical principles
  • "You care for everybody" : Cameron's ethics of care / Renee Kyle
  • To intubate or not to intubate : House's principles and priorities / Barbara Anne Stock and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
  • House and medical paternalism : "you can't always get what you want" / Mark R. Wicclair
  • If the end doesn't justify the means, then what does? / Catherine Sartin
  • House vs. Tritter : on the clash of theoretical and practical authority / Kenneth Ehrenberg
  • "The drugs don't make me high, they make me neutral" : virtues and character on House
  • House and the virtue of eccentricity / John R. Fitzpatrick
  • Love : the only risk House can't take / Sara Protasi
  • A prescription for friendship / Sara Waller
  • Diagnosing character : a House divided? / Heather Battaly and Amy Coplan.