Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics. The Fiction of Bioethics explores the medical case study and distills the idea that bioethicists study real-life cases, while philosophers contemplate fictional accounts.
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In The Fiction of Bioethics, Tod Chambers provides a much-needed model for a more relexive bioethics. Applying the instrument of rhetorical analysis to a careful reading of some classic ethics cases, he reveals the literary methods philosophers regularly use to persuade both authors and audience. . .[his work] is an important contribution to what can now become a continuing rigorous criticism of bioethics' most privileged communications. With Chambers' help, something is beginning to happen to the way we think about cases. --Martha Montello, Univ. of Kansas School of Medicine for Literature and Medicine 19, no. 2 (Fall 2000).
Tod Chambers' readings of medical narratives offer a fresh and refreshing vision of illness and healing. He shows how our reconstructions of the cases, in whatever form, ultimately transforms the way we see them. After reading his analyses and learning to see as he sees, things will never look quite the same again
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–John Lantos, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Chicago Hospitals
When Chambers debunks 'the myth that there are any clear unmediated presentations of moral problems' and urges bioethicists to 'acknowledge that their selection of relevant facts is itself guided by their philosophical perspectives', he is surely right - and no one to my knowledge has ever made that case more effectively.
–-David Barnard, Medical Humanities Review
Tod Chambers' readings of medical narratives offer a fresh and refreshing vision of illness and healing. He shows how our reconstructions of the cases, in whatever form, ultimately transforms the way we see them. After reading his analyses and learning to see as he sees, things will never look quite the same again
.
–John Lantos, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Chicago Hospitals
When Chambers debunks 'the myth that there are any clear unmediated presentations of moral problems' and urges bioethicists to 'acknowledge that their selection of relevant facts is itself guided by their philosophical perspectives', he is surely right - and no one to my knowledge has ever made that case more effectively.
–-David Barnard, Medical Humanities Review
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Tod Chamber is Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at Northwestern University Medical School.
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One of the recent developments in the field of bioethics has been an engagement with narrative. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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biological author, bioethics case, reported discourse, transformed discourse, ethics cases, diegetic sound, hypermedia system, virtue ethicists, narrative ethics, medical case history, implied author, medical humanities, moral distance, case narrative, case presentation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Medical Ethics (Jones and Bartlett Series in Philosophy) by Robert M. Veatch on 8 pages
- Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Beauchamp)) by Tom L. Beauchamp on 5 pages
- A Casebook of Medical Ethics by Terrence F. Ackerman on 4 pages
- Medical Ethics by Alastair Campbell on page 102, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth on page 48, page 177, and Back Matter
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- Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics (Reflective Bioethics) by Rita Charon on 8 pages
- Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility (Basic Bioethics) by Alfred I. Tauber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media by Lester D. Friedman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technologies, Parental Choices and Children's Futures (Reflective Bioethics) by Dena S. Davis in Front Matter
- Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure, 2nd Edition by Charles L. Bosk in Back Matter
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