Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics

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Stories and Their Limits
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Introduction: How to Do Things with Stories
I. Telling the Patient\'s Story
	1. What Do We Mean by \"Narrative Ethics?\"
	2. Who Gets to Tell the Story? Narrative in Postmodern Bioethics
	3. Enacting Illness Stories: When, What, and Why
	4. Autobiography, Biography, and Narrative Ethics
	5. Nice Story, But So What? Narrative and Justification in Ethics
II. Reading Narratives of Illness
	6. The Ethical Dimensions of Literature: Henry James\'s The Wings of the Dove
	7. Film and Narrative in Bioethics: Akira Kurosawa\'s Ikiru
	8. Perplexed about Narrative Ethics
	9. Bioethics\' Consensus on Method: Who Could Ask for Anything More?
III. Literary Criticism in the Clinic
	10. Medical Ethics and the Epiphanic Dimension of Narrative
	11. What to Expect from an Ethics Case (and What It Expects from You)
	12. Narrative Competence
	13. Toward a Bioethics for the Twenty-First Century: A Ricoeurian Poststructuralist Narrative Hermeneutic Approach to Informed Consent
IV. Narratives Invoked
	14. Aphorisms, Maxims, and Old Saws: Narrative Rationality and the Negotiation of Clinical Choice
	15. The Moral of the Story
	16. Medical Humanities: Pyramids and Rhomboids in the Rationalist World of Medicine
	17. Narrative(s) Versus Norm(s): A Misplaced Debate in Bioethics
Contributors
Index