Vulnerable Subjects : Ethics and Life Writing /

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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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Main Author: Couser, G. Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ethische aspecten.
Biografieën.
Autobiografieën.
Ethik
Autobiografie
Ethics.
Autobiography > Moral and ethical aspects.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
professional ethics.
autobiography (genre)
ethics (philosophy)
Bioethique.
Deontologie professionnelle.
Autobiographie.
Morale.
Autobiographie > Aspect moral.
Bioethics
Ethics
Vulnerable Populations
Biographies as Topic
Bioethical Issues
Ethics, Professional
Autobiographies as Topic
Bioethics.
Professional ethics.
Autobiography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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