The fiction of bioethics (Cases as literary texts)
Editorial ROUTLEDGE
Festland Spanien
- Verlag ROUTLEDGE
- ISBN13 9780415919890
- ISBN10 0415919894
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 207
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1999
- Bindung Gebunden
The fiction of bioethics (Cases as literary texts)
Editorial ROUTLEDGE
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics. The Fiction of Bioethics explores the medical case study and distills the idea that bioethicists study real-life cases, while philosophers contemplate
fictional accounts.
Chambers argues that case studies ethicists use are in fact, fiction, and thus follow representations of perception. Literary theory can inform and provide an important angle for the ethicist attempting to discern meaning from case studies. This book examines
literary conventions including point of view, plot, characterization and authorship, to demonstrate the significance of fiction in bioethical case studies.
things will never look quite the same again
(John Lantos, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Chicago Hospitals)