Stories and their limits : narrative approaches to bioethics / edited and with an introduction by Hilde Lindemann Nelson.

New York : Routledge, 1997.

xx, 284 pages ; 24 cm.

What do we mean by "narrative ethics?" / Thomas H. Murray -- Who gets to tell the story? Narrative in postmodern bioethics / Howard Brody -- Enacting illness stories : when, what, and why / Arthur W. Frank -- Autobiography, biography, and narrative ethics / John Hardwig -- Nice story, but so what? Narrative and justification in ethics / John D. Arras -- The ethical dimensions of literature : Henry James's The wings of the dove / Rita Charon -- Film and narrative in bioethics : Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru / Charles Weijer -- Perplexed about narrative ethics / Tom Tomlinson -- Bioethic's consensus on method ; who could ask for anything more? / Mark Kuczewski -- Medical ethics and the epiphanic dimension of narrative / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins -- What to expect from an ethics case (and what it expects from you) / Tod Chambers -- Narrative competence / Martha Montello -- Toward a bioethics for the twenty-first century : a ricoeurian poststructuralist narrative hermeneutic approach to informed consent / Jan Marta -- Aphorisms, maxims, and old saws : narrative rationality and the negotiation of clinical choice / Kathryn Montgomery Hunter -- The moral of the story / Ronald A. Carson -- Medical humanities : pyramids and rhomboids in the rationalist world of medicine / Lois LaCivita Nixon --- Narrative(s) versus norm(s) : a misplaced debate in bioethics / James F. Childress.

Includes bibliographical references and index