What Child Is This?
- 1 November 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Hastings Center Report
- Vol. 32 (6) , 29-38
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3528131
Abstract
If personhood involves the construction of a narrative identity, then what are we to say of someone who is seriously ill or disabled? How can her life have any narrative when she is unable to write one? In such cases, her personal identity must be written by those who care for her. They form stories about her that, fitted to the constraints of the circumstances, hold her in personhood.Keywords
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