PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Manchola Castillo, Camilo Hernán AU - Solbakk, Jan Helge 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.