RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Bioethics and imagination: towards a narrative bioethics committed to social action and justice
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 166
OP 171
DO 10.1136/medhum-2016-011079
VO 43
IS 3
A1 Manchola Castillo, Camilo Hernán
A1 Solbakk, Jan Helge
YR 2017
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/43/3/166.abstract
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.