PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Camilo Hernán Manchola Castillo
AU  - Jan Helge Solbakk
TI  - Bioethics and imagination: towards a narrative bioethics committed to social action and justice
AID  - 10.1136/medhum-2016-011079
DP  - 2017 Sep 01
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - 166--171
VI  - 43
IP  - 3
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/43/3/166.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/43/3/166.full
SO  - J Med Humanit2017 Sep 01; 43
AB  - 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) and Creating 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.