{"title":"Philip Roth's Patrimony: narrative and ethics in a case study.","authors":"E L Erde","doi":"10.1007/BF00998143","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I assess the ethical content of Philip Roth's account of his father's final years with, and death from a tumor. I apply this to criticisms of the nature and content of case reports in medicine. I also draw some implications about modernism, postmodernism and narrative understandings.</p>","PeriodicalId":77444,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical medicine","volume":"16 3","pages":"239-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF00998143","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Theoretical medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00998143","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
I assess the ethical content of Philip Roth's account of his father's final years with, and death from a tumor. I apply this to criticisms of the nature and content of case reports in medicine. I also draw some implications about modernism, postmodernism and narrative understandings.