title: Bioethics and imagination: towards a narrative bioethics committed to social action and justice.
abstract: Recently, the involvement of various authors coming from the social sciences and the arts has reinforced the humanistic component of bioethics. Their contributions vary from very theoretical perspectives to rather practical ones. In this paper, Martha Nussbaum's books,The Fragility of Goodness(1986),Love's Knowledge(1990),Cultivating Humanity(1997) andCreating Capabilities(2011) are analysed from the vantage point of narrative bioethics. It is argued that Nussbaum's notions of 'Narrative', 'Imagination' and 'Cultivation' open up the possibility of developing an action-oriented form of narrative bioethics, that is, a bioethics committed to social action and justice.
authors.affiliation: UNESCO Chair of Bioethics, University of Brasilia, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: Camilo Hernán
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Manchola Castillo
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Center for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Jan Helge
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Solbakk
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006809:Humanities; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D033262:Narration; D012935:Social Justice
keywords: Social science