Vulnerable Subjects
Author | : G. Thomas Couser |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 080148863X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780801488634 |
Rating | : 4/5 (634 Downloads) |
Download or read book Vulnerable Subjects written by G. Thomas Couser and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Consensual relations: life writing and betrayal -- 2. Auto/biographical, biomedical, and ethnographic ethics -- 3. Making, taking, and faking lives: voice and vulnerability in collaborative life writing -- 4. Adoption, disability, and surrogacy: the ethics of parental life writing in The Broken Cord -- 5. Beyond the clinic: Oliver Sacks and the ethics of neuroanthropology -- 6. Life writing as death writing: disability and euthanography -- 7. Genome and genre: DNA and life writing -- Writing wrongs: in defense of ethical criticism.