Narratives have always played a prominent role in both bioethics and medicine. What kind of ethical work can stories do and what are the limits to this work? The essays in this volume offer reflections on the relationship between narratives and ethics.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

".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 not only for those working in the field of bioethics, but for anyone concerned with ethics in its philosophical or theological mode." -- Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University