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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.