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Book SynopsisAn unauthorised look at the philosophical issues raised in the Emmy Award-winning TV drama, House House is one of the top three television dramas on the air, pulling in more than 19 million viewers for each episode. House and Philosophy takes a deeper look at the issues it raises offering answers to the ethical questions viewers have about Dr.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments: What? You Want Me to Thank You? ix
Introduction: Read Less, More TV: A Cranky, Slightly Rude Introduction 1
Henry Jacoby
Part One “Humanity Is Overrated”: House on Life
1 Selfish, Base Animals Crawling Across the Earth: House and the Meaning of Life 5
Henry Jacoby
2 House and Sartre: “Hell Is Other People” 17
Jennifer L. McMahon
3 Is There a Superman in the House?: A Nietzschean Point of View 30
David Goldblatt
4 House and Moral Luck 39
Jane Dryden
Part Two “Welcome to the End of the Thought Process:” House’s Logic and Method
5 The Logic of Guesswork in Sherlock Holmes and House 55
Jerold J. Abrams
6 It Explains Everything! 71
Barbara Anne Stock
7 The Sound of One House Clapping: The Unmannerly Doctor as Zen Rhetorician 84
Jeffrey C. Ruff and Jeremy Barris
8 “Being Nice Is Overrated”: House and Socrates on the Necessity of Conflict 98
Melanie Frappier
9 Is There a Daoist in the House? 112
Peter Vernezze
Part Three “It Is the Nature of Medicine That You Are Going to Screw Up”: House And Ethical Principles
10 “You Care for Everybody”: Cameron’s Ethics of Care 125
Renee Kyle
11 To Intubate or Not to Intubate: House’s Principles and Priorities 137
Barbara Anne Stock and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
12 House and Medical Paternalism: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” 150
Mark R. Wicclair
13 If the End Doesn’t Justify the Means, Then What Does? 164
Catherine Sartin
14 House vs. Tritter: On the Clash of Theoretical and Practical Authority 174
Kenneth Ehrenberg
Part Four “The Drugs Don’t Make Me High, They Make Me Neutral”: Virtues And Character on House
15 House and the Virtue of Eccentricity 187
John R. Fitzpatrick
16 Love: The Only Risk House Can’t Take 198
Sara Protasi
17 A Prescription for Friendship 209
Sara Waller
18 Diagnosing Character: A House Divided? 222
Heather Battaly and Amy Coplan
Contributors: Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital Staff 239
Index: Index of Differential Diagnoses 247
