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Medicine and bioethics today are though as fields of pure logic, reasoning, and science, with physicians and ethicists trained to approach patients with an attitude of detatched rationality. In reality, neither medical care nor ethics can be practiced well without an acknowledgement for their deeply emotional, relational, and narrative qualities. Medical care and bioethics must both be practiced through a narrative lense in order to truly meet the humanity of both patients and practitioners. There are practical methods to integrate narrative skills into clinical practice, as well as tangible benefits to doing so. Practially, this is performed through narrative medicine: an approach to medical care that recognizes the stories as a critical component to healthcare; as well as narrative ethics: an awareness of the essential role of narrative in moral understanding. Using narrative as a tool to understanding illness and moral grounds the more abstract and universal aspects of both in practical, individual reality. There are many practical aspects of narratives when applied to bioethics, such as aquiring narrative skills, what happens when stories are shared, recognizing how narratives are built, how they convey knowledge, organize life, and provide meaning. Illness creates an isolation – for both patient and practitioner – and stories allow each to express their experience and be supported though the stories of others. Stories help brigdge the gap in experiences of illness between practioner and patient while helping pracitioners to maintin their empathy in the face of continual suffering. Narrative skills are also useful for practioners to bring awareness to the power dynamics that influence patient stories, such as the power of practitioner as co-creator, whose voice is given credibility, external and internal influences on a story, who determines the meaning of a story, and how the patient is characterized within the story. Narrative permeates every aspect of human life, including medical and ethical situations, and approaching both through a narrative lens is imperative for the development of true understanding, empathy, and compassion. Cultivating a narrative framework towards illness allows both practioners and patients to be cared for while also caring for the other, thus creating deep, meaningful connections. / Urban Bioethics

Medicine and bioethics today are though as fields of pure logic, reasoning, and science, with physicians and ethicists trained to approach patients with an attitude of detatched rationality. In reality, neither medical care nor ethics can be practiced well without an acknowledgement for their deeply emotional, relational, and narrative qualities. Medical care and bioethics must both be practiced through a narrative lense in order to truly meet the humanity of both patients and practitioners. There are practical methods to integrate narrative skills into clinical practice, as well as tangible benefits to doing so. Practially, this is performed through narrative medicine: an approach to medical care that recognizes the stories as a critical component to healthcare; as well as narrative ethics: an awareness of the essential role of narrative in moral understanding. Using narrative as a tool to understanding illness and moral grounds the more abstract and universal aspects of both in practical, individual reality. There are many practical aspects of narratives when applied to bioethics, such as aquiring narrative skills, what happens when stories are shared, recognizing how narratives are built, how they convey knowledge, organize life, and provide meaning. Illness creates an isolation – for both patient and practitioner – and stories allow each to express their experience and be supported though the stories of others. Stories help brigdge the gap in experiences of illness between practioner and patient while helping pracitioners to maintin their empathy in the face of continual suffering. Narrative skills are also useful for practioners to bring awareness to the power dynamics that influence patient stories, such as the power of practitioner as co-creator, whose voice is given credibility, external and internal influences on a story, who determines the meaning of a story, and how the patient is characterized within the story. Narrative permeates every aspect of human life, including medical and ethical situations, and approaching both through a narrative lens is imperative for the development of true understanding, empathy, and compassion. Cultivating a narrative framework towards illness allows both practioners and patients to be cared for while also caring for the other, thus creating deep, meaningful connections. / Urban Bioethics

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This thesis, a two volume study of aspects of those popular cultural forms which increasingly prevail over the home television and video environment (American narrative film in feature and series formats), attempts to identify there a narrative mode of production. The specific problem traced through such a production is that of the outer/inner (visible/invisible) metaphor as it informs the construction of points of 'individualism' in or through the textual surface. This problem is considered in relation both to certain traditional ways of thinking about the American 'imagination' and to specific examples of popular film in the seventies. These considerations are progressively focussed on the question of ideological recognition and on an enlargement of the concept of 'channel' to include those mimetic impulses which maintain a contact between text and reader. Around the theme of an extending 'discourse relation' which establishes certain limits and levels of practice, the thesis considers the relationship of level and metalevel; particularly the idea that an event at one level of description may be 'caused' by an event at another level by virtue of being a 'translation'. The crucial instance relates the spatial positioning of the body, on the screen and in front of it, to 'extrinsic' conditions. Conditions are formulated in terms of a late capitalist transition to unstable postindustrial, at which point the study of narrative systems of signification becomes an exercise in reading structural mediation between popular culture and surrounding socio-economic and historical realities. This shift between significations and communications brings a critical perspective to bear on the dominant ideology thesis and begins to engage with a grounded method of theorising, suggesting that detailed work on textual features of popular culture is not finally discontinuous with the level of description which takes as its object the hypothesised new communication order.

The following report describes the development, pre-production, production, and post-production of the short narrative film Good Housekeeping. It also contains the original shooting script, shooting schedule, and cast and crew credits as supplemental material. / text

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