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Title Stories and their limits : narrative approaches to bioethics / edited and with an introduction by Hilde Lindemann Nelson
Published New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description xx, 284 pages ; 24 cm
Series Reflective bioethics
Reflective bioethics.
Contents Introduction: How to Do Things with Stories / Hilde Lindemann Nelson -- I. Telling the Patient's Story. 1. What Do We Mean by "Narrative Ethics?" / Thomas H. Murray. 2. Who Gets to Tell the Story? Narrative in Postmodern Bioethics / Howard Brody. 3. Enacting Illness Stories: When, What, and Why / Arthur W. Frank. 4. Autobiography, Biography, and Narrative Ethics / John Hardwig. 5. Nice Story, But So What? Narrative and Justification in Ethics / John D. Arras -- II. Reading Narratives of Illness. 6. The Ethical Dimensions of Literature: Henry James's The Wings of the Dove / Rita Charon. 7. Film and Narrative in Bioethics: Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru / Charles Weijer. 8. Perplexed about Narrative Ethics / Tom Tomlinson. 9. Bioethics' Consensus on Method: Who Could Ask for Anything More? / Mark Kuczewski -- III. Literary Criticism in the Clinic. 10. Medical Ethics and the Epiphanic Dimension of Narrative / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
11. What to Expect from an Ethics Case (and What It Expects from You) / Tod Chambers. 12. Narrative Competence / Martha Montello. 13. Toward a Bioethics for the Twenty-First Century: A Ricoeurian Poststructuralist Narrative Hermeneutic Approach to Informed Consent / Jan Marta -- IV. Narratives Invoked. 14. Aphorisms, Maxims, and Old Saws: Narrative Rationality and the Negotiation of Clinical Choice / Kathryn Montgomery Hunter. 15. The Moral of the Story / Ronald A. Carson. 16. Medical Humanities: Pyramids and Rhomboids in the Rationalist World of Medicine / Lois LaCivita Nixon. 17. Narrative(s) Versus Norm(s): A Misplaced Debate in Bioethics / James F. Childress
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Medical ethics -- Methodology.
Medicine in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Storytelling -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Storytelling.
Author Lindemann, Hilde.
LC no. 97036487
ISBN 0415919096
041591910X (paperback)