 A further alternative approach to ethics in general and bioethics in particular is narrative ethics. According to many commentators, it emerged in response to a so-called “theory-driven” approach to bioethics, an approach that prioritizes the Enlightenment ideas of objectivity and universality (Arras 1997: 65). Put differently, narrative ethics emerged as a response to an impartialist ethics, one working on the assumption that ethics is mainly a matter of “right conduct among strangers”. According to Hilde Lindemann Nelson, two proposals on which narrative approaches to ethics are based are that moral principles are not lawlike but are modifiable in light of context (presumably by being made more specific, or by being treated as defeasible), and that the particulars of a situation “either naturally take a narrative form, or must be given a narrative structure if they are to have moral meaning” (Lindemann Nelson 1997a: viii–ix).