.a valuable collection.from distinguished philosophers who specialize in biomedical ethics. -- Ethics
This collection is very illuminating, providing a rigorous methadological look at what narrative knowledge and literary skillfulness add to medical understanding and practiceReligious Studies Review.
Stories and Their Limits should be required reading notonly for those working in the field of bioethics, but foranyone concerned with ethics in its philosophical ortheological mode. -- Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University
Hilde Lindemann Nelson is Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the co-author of The Patientin the Family (Routledge 1995) and Alzeimer's: Answers toHard Questions for Families (1996) and editor of Feminismand Families (Routledge 1997). She is also the co-editor of the Reflective Bioethics series.