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Author:

Couser, G. Thomas.

Title:

Vulnerable subjects : ethics and life writing / G. Thomas Couser.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xv, 234 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Autobiography--Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethics.
Autobiographie--Aspect moral.
Morale.
Autobiografieën.
Biografieën.
Ethische aspecten.
Autobiography.
Ethics, Professional.
Bioethical Issues.
Biography as Topic.
Vulnerable Populations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-230) and index.

Contents:

1. Consensual relations: life writing and betrayal -- 2. Auto/biographical, biomedical, and ethnographic ethics -- 3. Making, taking, and faking lives: voice and vulnerability in collaborative life writing -- 4. Adoption, disability, and surrogacy: the ethics of parental life writing in The Broken Cord -- 5. Beyond the clinic: Oliver Sacks and the ethics of neuroanthropology -- 6. Life writing as death writing: disability and euthanography -- 7. Genome and genre: DNA and life writing -- Writing wrongs: in defense of ethical criticism.

ISBN:

9780801488634 (pbk. : alk. paper)
080148863X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801441851 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801441854 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2003010655

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)