Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments vii
• Introduction ix
• Part I - Narrative Knowledge 1
• Chapter 1 - Narratives of Human Plight: a Conversation with Jerome Bruner 3
• Chapter 2 - The Ethics of Medicine, as Revealed in Literature 10
• Chapter 3 - Like an Open Book: Reliability, Intersubjectivity, and Textuality in Bioethics 21
• Part II - Narrative Components of Bioethics 37
• Chapter 4 - Context: Backward, Sideways, and Forward 39
• Chapter 5 - Voice in the Medical Narrative 48
• Chapter 6 - Time and Ethics 59
• Chapter 7 - The Idea of Character 69
• Chapter 8 - Plot: Framing Contingency and Choice in Bioethics 77
• Chapter 9 - The Reader’s Response and Why It Matters in Biomedical Ethics 85
• Part III - Case Studies in Narrative Ethics 95
• Chapter 10 - The Narrative of Rescue in Pediatric Practice 97
• Chapter 11 - Beyond the Authoritative Voice: Casting a Wide Net in Ethics Consultation 109
• Chapter 12 - Of Symbols and Silence: Using Narrative and Its Interpretation to Foster Physician Understanding 119
• Chapter 13 - Narrative Understanding and Methods in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health 126
• Chapter 14 - In the Absence of Narrative 138
• Part IV - Consequences of Using Narrative Methods 147
• Chapter 15 - Narrative Ethics and Institutional Impact 149
• Chapter 16 - Reconsidering Action: Day-To-Day Ethics in the Work of Medicine 154
• Chapter 17 - The Color of the Wallpaper: Training for Narrative Ethics 160
• Part V - The Narrative Future of Ethics Practice 169
• Chapter 18 - The Hyphenated Space: Liminality in the Doctor-Patient Relationship 171
• Chapter 19 - Narrative Ethics, Gene Stories, and the Hermeneutics of Consent Forms 183
• Chapter 20 - Narrative, Ethics, and Pain: Thinking with Stories 196
• Chapter 21 - The Story Inside 219
• Notes on Contributors 227
• Permissions 233
• Index 235

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