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In An Exploration Of A Range Of Life-writing Scenarios-from The Celebrity To The Ethnographicand A Number Of Life-writing Genres From Parental Memoir To Literary Case Studies By Oliver Sacks, Addresses Complex Contemporary Issues, Including Investigation Of The Role Of Disability In Narratives Of Euthanasia And Exploration Of The Implications Of The Human Genome Project For Life-writing Practices In Any Age When Many Regard Dna As A Code That Scripts Lives And Shapes Identity. A Concern Throughout Is The Ethical Implications Of The Political And Economic, As Well As The Mimetic, Aspects Of Life Writing. [back Cover]. 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. G. Thomas Couser. Includes Bibliog

Author

Couser, G. Thomas

Publisher

Ithaca : Cornell University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801488634

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography