Name: Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (en Inglés)
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Author: G. Thomas Couser
ISBN: 9780801488634

portada Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cornell University Press

Autor

G. Thomas Couser

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

254

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

080148863X

ISBN13

9780801488634

N° edición

Categorías

Biografías de científicos y doctores

Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (en Inglés)

G. Thomas Couser (Autor) · Cornell University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (en Inglés)"

"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects-persons who are liable to exposure by someone with whom they are involved in an intimate or trust-based relationship, unable to represent themselves in writing, or unable to offer meaningful consent to their representation by someone else.... Of primary importance is intimate life writing-that done within families or couples, close relationships, or quasi-professional relationships that involve trust-rather than conventional biography, which can be written by a stranger. The closer the relationship between writer and subject, the greater the vulnerability or dependency of the subject, the higher the ethical stakes, and the more urgent the need for ethical scrutiny."-from the Preface Vulnerable Subjects explores a range of life-writing scenarios-from the "celebrity" to the "ethnographic"-and a number of life-writing genres from parental memoir to literary case studies by Oliver Sacks. G. Thomas Couser addresses complex contemporary issues; he investigates the role of disability in narratives of euthanasia and explores the implications of the Human Genome Project for life-writing practices in any age when many regard DNA as a code that "scripts" lives and shapes identity. Throughout, his book is concerned with the ethical implications of the political and economic, as well as the mimetic, aspects of life writing.