Eating One’s Friends: Fiction as Argument in Bioethics - Tod Chambers

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program presents

a Montgomery Lecture

with

Tod Chambers, PhD

Associate Professor, Medical Education

Faculty, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program

Member, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine



Eating One’s Friends: Fiction as Argument in Bioethics



In this presentation it is argued that fiction does not merely represent the world but contra to the view of most bioethicists, provide arguments through that representation. In order to illustrate, examples of speculative fiction are examined to reveal how their literary defamiliarizations of cannibalism argue for particular views concerning the species divide.

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