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The Life Ethics Research On Disease Narration

Posted on:2016-03-06Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:1225330503477590Subject:Ethics
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The disease can be said is the basic life experience that everyone unwilling to suffer but cannot avoid, it affects people’s normal life, and even accelerated life process to the end. Because of this, the disease will make people produce unprecedented attention to life itself and the value of existence, and inspire people to think about the value and significance of life. While to explore the life state of "good" and "shall be" is the core of life ethics. In this paper, disease narration should be understood as the literary works that taking disease as a narrative clues or the disease plays an important role of the plot development. It can be said, disease narration express deep concern to human existence state by demonstrating the sick life, which inevitably contains the rich and profound life ethics. However, this field has not receive the attention of the academia, this paper is a brave attempt in order to achieve better results. Based on respect and concern of life, the dissertation regard disease narration as the research object, through the perspective of life ethics and the interdisciplinary research, to seek the life ethics thought in the disease narration, from three ethical dimensions of human’s natural life, spiritual life and social life.The disease brings painful life experience and the fragility of life sentiment, literature express the soul and emotion of human, but also concern the value of life and the ultimate care. The real experience of disease can inspire the enthusiasm of literature creation, and the process of literary creation also help the patients to achieve self salvation and social salvation, it is the root of disease narration frequent. The moral interpretation and social metaphor of disease for a long time let the disease is closely related with ethics, while the literary ethics and narrative ethics has become the theoretical basis of illness narrative ethics. The natural life, spiritual life, and social life three attributes to expand the definition of life ethics, but also enriched the connotation of life ethics in the disease narration.First of all, disease narration pursue the essence of natural life. The highly development of life science and technology caused the loss of the death dignity in the modern medical situation, and value of human life is also being questioned, illness narrative literature has made positive ethical thinking and response, it negatives instrumental rationality, and calling for a return of value rationality. Secondly, disease narration pursue the perfection of spiritual life, it reflects the variety of the dilemmas of human existence. There are many suicide plot in the literature of the May 4th period, which is closely related with the social background at that time, but also express the ethical significance of suicidal behavior. In the absurd groups or morbid society, to against fate is the only way of life. Female life in physical and psychological trauma to pursuit the awakening and introspection of the subject consciousness in the process of identity value change. The disability life inevitably facing more hardships than others, so it is a great way that they get the eternal significance through believe in something. Again, disease narration pursue the harmonious of social life, it reflects the ethical contemplation of doctor-patient relationship. The problems between doctors and patients mainly manifested in three aspects at this stage, they are the market-oriented medical relationship, indifferent feelings between doctors and patients, and serious medical tangle, while it is a good way to reconstruct the doctor-patient community. The practical significance of life ethics thought of disease narration be analyzed at the end of the paper. The practical significance mainly includes three aspects, they are advocating the spirit of reverence for life, propagating humanitarianism, and broadening our horizons of life problems.This article summarized a series of valuable life ethics ideas through research a large number of illness narrative literature. It attacks the behavior that rely too much on life technology while ignore the dignity and value of human life, advocates the spirit of perseverance to keep the faith and rebellion against fate when facing the plight of life, reveals the current problems in doctor-patient relationship. The paper try to express fundamentally the respect and concern to human life, to establish a positive and healthy outlook on life ethics, so that the value and dignity of every individual life are highlighted.
Keywords/Search Tags:disease narration, life ethics, death with dignity, survive predicament, doctor-patient relationship
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