ABSTRACT
There is, it seems to me, a preoccupation with autobiography in narrative bioethics. We need to overcome this preoccupation; autobiographies are both epistemically and morally suspect. Autobiographies remain important, of course, but biographies are also of critical importance, both for the theory of bioethics and for clinical practice. I take my concerns about autobiographies and an ethics based on them to be a concern within narrative ethics, not either an attack on it or a defense of it.
