Some short stories serve with your Bioethics

After Dinner Conversation serves up some great dessert

got to hand it to (I assume) the AI cover, that rabbit has some feet!

Just a short post this time about After Dinner Conversation, a literary magazine bioethics profs and students should know about.

After Dinner Conversation (hereafter ADC) is a non-profit literary magazine that publishes short stories designed to spark conversations about various topics in philosophy and ethics. [Full disclosure, I have occasionally acted as a referree/reader for the magazine but not for any stories in this volume but I bought my own copy]

This edition is dedicated to bioethics. There are stories here about organ transplant dilemmas, euthanasia, the ethics of enhancement, designer babies, and eugenics. 162 pages of imaginative, speculative fiction. Each story has a half-dozen discussion questions to spark student debate.

If you are a student studying bioethics, these stories will fire your imagination and test your intuitions about the concepts laid out in the chapters of Practical Bioethics as informed consent (Chapter 3) and End-of-Life (Chapter 5) and Scarce Resources (Chapter 6), even ethics of research subjects (Chapter 4).

There are other ADC books on punishment, business ethics, and technology. Think of it as several extra seasons of Black Mirror.

If you fancy writing some fiction you should know that ADC is a popular place to submit your fiction. Chillsubs is a database of literary magazines accepting submissions and ADC is, “[T]he #1 Most Popular Fiction Literary Magazine by users of website. . . also the #7 bookmarked literary magazine of all kinds on their website.”