THE ETHICS OF NARRATIVE ETHICS - SOME TEACHING REFLECTIONS

Narrative is reemerging as a teaching tool. Narrative ethics is being seen as a rich endeavour both for clinical practice and academic teach ing and research. Narrative helps put ethics into context. However, th e use of narrative increasingly raises issues in teaching and research : for instance, how do we do justice to the people and narratives we u tilise, and what does our practice reveal about our ethics? In this ar ticle examples are drawn from clinical practice, teaching and case not es to draw out some lessons to help further critical understanding.