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Imaginary restrictions

N Pickering1

  • 1University of Wales, Swansea.

Journal of Medical Ethics
|July 3, 1998
PubMed
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Literature enhances medical ethics by fostering moral imagination, not by providing direct guidance. Engaging with stories develops empathy and moral reasoning, enriching physicians

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Ethics
  • Medical Humanities
  • Philosophy of Medicine

Background:

  • The role of literature and imagination in medical ethics is a subject of ongoing academic and professional discussion.
  • Existing discourse often seeks generalizable examples from literature for ethical guidance in medical practice.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To challenge the notion that literature's primary role in medicine is to provide generalizable ethical examples.
  • To propose an alternative understanding of how literature and imagination contribute to moral development in healthcare professionals.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical analysis of the relationship between literary engagement and moral reasoning.
  • Exploration of the function of imagination in bringing literary characters and worlds to life.
Keywords:
Bioethics and Professional EthicsProfessional Patient Relationship

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Main Results:

  • Engagement with literature is argued to parallel moral engagement with other individuals.
  • The imagination's function is not hypothetical but vital for animating literary experiences.

Conclusions:

  • Literature does not offer direct ethical blueprints but cultivates moral life through imaginative engagement.
  • Developing one's moral life is facilitated by the empathetic and imaginative connection fostered by reading literature.