7. Genome and Genre: DNA and Life Writing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: Auto/Bio/Ethics ix
4. 1. Consensual Relations: Life Writing and Betrayal 1
5. 2. Auto/Biographical, Biomedical, and Ethnographic Ethics 14
6. 3. Making, Taking, and Faking Lives: Voice and Vulnerability in Collaborative Life Writing 34
7. 4. Adoption, Disability, and Surrogacy: The Ethics of Parental Life Writing in The Broken Cord 56
8. 5. Beyond the Clinic: Oliver Sacks and the Ethics of Neuroanthropology 74
9. 6. Life Writing as Death Writing: Disability and Euthanography 123
10. 7. Genome and Genre: DNA and Life Writing 165
11. Epilogue: Writing Wrongs: In Defense of Ethical Criticism 198
12. Notes 203
13. Works Cited 219
14. Index 231