Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to BioethicsHilde Lindemann Nelson Narratives have always played a prominent role in both bioethics and medicine; the fields have attracted much storytelling, ranging from great literature to humbler stories of sickness and personal histories. And all bioethicists work with cases--from court cases that shape policy matters to case studies that chronicle sickness. But how useful are these various narratives for sorting out moral matters? What kind of ethical work can stories do--and what are the limits to this work? The new essays in Stories and Their Limits offer insightful reflections on the relationship between narratives and ethics. |
Contents
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Who Gets to Tell the Story? Narrative in Postmodern Bioethics | 18 |
When What and Why | 31 |
Autobiography Biography and Narrative Ethics | 50 |
Nice Story But So What? Narrative and Justification in Ethics | 65 |
Akira Kurosawas Ikiru | 113 |
Who Could Ask for Anything More? | 134 |
Medical Ethics and the Epiphanic Dimension of Narrative | 153 |
What to Expect from an Ethics Case and What It Expects from You | 171 |
Narrative Competence | 185 |
A Ricoeurian | 198 |
Narrative Rationality | 215 |
The Moral of the Story | 232 |
A Misplaced Debate in Bioethics | 252 |
Contributors | 273 |
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Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics Hilde Lindemann Nelson Limited preview - 2014 |
Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics Hilde Lindemann Nelson No preview available - 1997 |
Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics Hilde Lindemann,Hilde Lindemann Nelson No preview available - 1997 |
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