Vulnerable Subjects Ethics and Life Writing

Name: Vulnerable Subjects Ethics and Life Writing
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ISBN: 9780801488634

ISBN-10: 080148863X

ISBN-13: 9780801488634

Edition: 2003

Authors: G. Thomas Couser

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'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.

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface: Auto/Bio/Ethics



Consensual Relations: Life Writing and Betrayal



Auto/Biographical, Biomedical, and Ethnographic Ethics



Making, Taking, and Faking Lives: Voice and Vulnerability in Collaborative Life Writing



Adoption, Disability, and Surrogacy: The Ethics of Parental Life Writing in The Broken Cord



Beyond the Clinic: Oliver Sacks and the Ethics of Neuroanthropology



Life Writing as Death Writing: Disability and Euthanography



Genome and Genre: DNA and Life Writing


Epilogue: Writing Wrongs: In defense of Ethical Criticism


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