Narrative ethics calls for "thick" description, but even a very detailed story, one that includes a number of viewpoints, will not necessarily point the way to an easy answer, a right answer, or a happy ending.
Narrative ethics calls for "thick" description, but even a very detailed story, one that includes a number of viewpoints, will not necessarily point the way to an easy answer, a right answer, or a happy ending.
The 1968 Uniform Anatomical Gift Act--in keeping with a legal (and medical) concern for individual autonomy--bypassed the family in establishing the legal requirements for cadaveric organ donation, but current practice wisely recognizes a role for families in the decision making.
In the U.S., care for chronically dependent people is done mostly by family and friends, with only sporadic community support. Though such unpaid caregiving work--the bulk of it performed by women--constitutes an enormous subsidy to the national welfare, the contribution is undervalued, and the negative practical consequences for caregivers seldom recognized.
Hailed as a possible solution to the chronic shortage of transplantable organs, a commercial market raises a host of practical and policy problems. More important, it fails to give due respect to the body, the medium through which the self is revealed to the world.
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