2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Woman in the Corridor: Caring across Boundaries
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This chapter features the story of a Western journalist in Cambodia (“Ann”) who gets caught up, by chance, in the care of two local women. While reflecting on her story, we are led to consider different grounds of obligation to people in need, wherever they may be. Like the other memoir cases in this book, the story is slightly disguised, to protect the protagonist’s identity. Since Ann was an experienced journalist and a good writer, I follow her own narration pretty closely. Aside from the story itself, I am able to draw on her analysis of the ethical issues as she understood them (analysis was the second component of the assignment in my Ethics course) as well as correspondence between us during the drafting of the case and after Ann’s graduation from the Harvard Kennedy School. In addition, to inform my commentary, I have consulted studies of Cambodian society, especially by anthropologists and historians, to provide some context for the events described.