title: The rationality and morality of dying children.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario.
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hoffmaster
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D003657:Decision Making; D028663:Ethical Theory; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology*