Medicine and the Ethics of Care

Medicine and the Ethics of Care brings insights from both religious and feminist scholarship proposing creative new approaches to the ethics of medical care. While traditional ethics emphasizes rules, justice, and fairness, the contributors to this volume embrace the ethics of engaged care, which values emotional involvement in the lives of others in order to discern what ought to be done on their behalf.The contributors reflect on the related themes of community, narrative, and emotion. They argue for the need to understand patients and caregivers alike as moral agents who are embedded in multiple communities, who seek to attain or promote healing partly through the medium of storytelling, and who do so also by cultivating good emotional habits. A thought-provoking contribution to a field that has long been dominated by the ethics of principles, Medicine and the Ethics of Care will appeal to scholars and students who want to move beyond the constraints of traditional approaches.

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Draws insights from both religious and feminist scholarship in order to propose fresh approaches to the ethics of medical care. This title embraces an "ethics of care", which regards emotional engagement in the lives of others as basic to discerning what we ought to do on their behalf.

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• Autori: Diana Fritz Lauritzen Cates
• Con la collaborazione di: Diana Fritz Cates (Editore), Diana Fritz (University of Iowa) Cates (Editore), Cates Diana Fritz (Editore), Paul Lauritzen (Editore), Paul (John Carroll University) Lauritzen (Editore), Lauritzen Paul (Editore)
• Editore: Georgetown University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2002
• EAN: 9780878408252
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-825-2
• Pagine: 368
• Serie: Moral Traditions Series; Moral Traditions (Paperback); Moral Traditions; Moral Traditions series; Moral Traditions (Paperback)
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; MEDICAL / Ethics, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct