title: A narrative ethics of care.
abstract: If ethics of care deals with the nature of relationships, attentiveness, and understanding particular others, narrativity ought to play a central part. Sometimes, caring simply amounts to working with narratives. In the article I claim that narrativity can even be said to be native to an ethics of care. Through an example, I demonstrate how a narrative ethics of care can discern and grasp some moral problems better than the standard theoretical outlooks.
authors.affiliation: Section for Medical Ethics, Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, PO Box 1130, Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway. jenserikpaulsen@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Jens Erik
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Paulsen
mesh_terms: D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000941:ethics; D003657:Decision Making; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics*; D004645:Empathy / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D033221:Jehovah's Witnesses; D033262:Narration