The Rationality and Morality of Dying Children
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2011
Source
Hastings Center Report
Volume
41
Issue
6
First Page
30
Last Page
41
URL with Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcr.2011.0139
Abstract
Formal reason is not adequate to explain how we think through real-life problems and make moral decisions about them. A far richer account of rationality is necessary. Interviews conducted with children who have leukemia, and who must figure out by themselves that they are dying and how they should handle that information, illustrate a range on informal tools that must be part of that account.
