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Vulnerable subjects : ethics and life writing /

In an exploration of a range of life-writing scenarios-from the celebrity to the ethnographicand a number of life-writing genres from parental memoir to literary case studies by Oliver Sacks, addresses complex contemporary issues, including investigation of the role of disability in narratives of eu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Couser, G. Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Consensual relations: life writing and betrayal
  • 2. Auto/biographical, biomedical, and ethnographic ethics
  • 3. Making, taking, and faking lives: voice and vulnerability in collaborative life writing
  • 4. Adoption, disability, and surrogacy: the ethics of parental life writing in The Broken Cord
  • 5. Beyond the clinic: Oliver Sacks and the ethics of neuroanthropology
  • 6. Life writing as death writing: disability and euthanography
  • 7. Genome and genre: DNA and life writing
  • Writing wrongs: in defense of ethical criticism.