Eating One’s Friends: Fiction as Argument in Bioethics - Tod Chambers
When:
Thursday, September 28, 2017
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor, Searle Seminar room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
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.