Literature, history and the humanization of bioethics.
This paper considers the disciplines of literature and history and the contributions each makes to the discourse of bioethics. In each case I note the pedagogic ends that can be enacted though the appropriate use of the each of these disciplines in the sphere of medical education, particularly in the medical ethics classroom.(1) I then explore the contribution that both these disciplines and their respective methodologies can and do bring to the academic field of bioethics. I conclude with a brief consideration of the relations between literature and history with particular attention to the possibilities for a future bioethics informed by history and literature after the empirical turn.
Emmerich
Nathan
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School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen's University Belfast, The Institute ofGovernance, 63 University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom. nemmerich01@qub.ac.uk
D001675:Bioethics / Q000639:trends; D006664:History; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature