title: Literature and medical ethics.
abstract: The essays in this Journal issue offer examples of how textual analysis, literary theory, and the reading and writing of literature can contribute to an understanding of ethical issues in medicine. The editors' purpose in such an issue is to stimulate discussion between philosopher-ethicists and literary scholars whose work concerns this topic. With the concluding essays by editors Clouser and Hawkins, this discussion begins.
authors.affiliation: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, USA.
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Clouser
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Hawkins
mesh_terms: D004989:Ethics; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008128:Logic; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D033262:Narration; D014956:Writing