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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170998603321

Titolo

Stories matter : the role of narrative in medical ethics / / edited by Rita Charon & Martha M. Montello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-135-95726-6

0-203-80048-6

0-203-80053-2

1-280-07199-0

1-135-95727-4

9786610071999

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Reflective bioethics

Altri autori (Persone)

CharonRita

MontelloMartha <1949->

Disciplina

174.2

174/.2

Soggetti

Medical ethics

Bioethics

Narration (Rhetoric) - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Memory and Anticipation: The Practice of Narrative Ethics; Narratives of Human Plight: A Conversation with Jerome Bruner; The Ethics of Medicine, as Revealed in Literature; Like an Open Book: Reliability, Intersubjectivity, and Textuality in Bioethics; Context: Backward, Sideways, and Forward; Voice in the Medical Narrative; Time and Ethics; The Idea of Character; Plot: Framing Contingency and Choice in Bioethics; The Reader's Response and Why It Matters in Biomedical Ethics; The Narrative of Rescue in Pediatric Practice

Beyond the Authoritative Voice: Casting a Wide Net in Ethics ConsultationOf Symbols and Silence: Using Narrative and Its Interpretation to Foster Physician Understanding; Narrative Understanding and Methods in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health; In the Absence of Narrative; Narrative Ethics and Institutional Impact;



Reconsidering Action: Day-to-Day Ethics in the Work of Medicine; The Color of the Wallpaper: Training for Narrative Ethics; The Hyphenated Space: Liminality in the Doctor-Patient Relationship; Narrative Ethics, Gene Stories, and the Hermeneutics of Consent Forms

Narrative, Ethics, and Pain: Thinking with StoriesThe Story Inside; Notes on Contributors; Permissions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text examines the many ways that narrative methods of analysis and interpretation are transforming the work of medicine and ethics. This edited collection provides conceptual foundations, guidelines and theory central to narrative ethics.