| Medicine and the Ethics of Care Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cates, Diana Fritz (Editor), Lauritzen, Paul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0878408258 ISBN-13: 9780878408252 Publisher: Georgetown University Press OUR PRICE: $59.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ethics - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 174.2 |
| LCCN: 00061026 |
| Series: Moral Traditions |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.32" W x 9.1" (1.08 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In these essays, a diverse group of ethicists draw insights from both religious and feminist scholarship in order to propose creative new approaches to the ethics of medical care. While traditional ethics emphasizes rules, justice, and fairness, the contributors to this volume embrace 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. The essays reflect on the three related themes: 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 by cultivating good emotional habits. A thought-provoking contribution to a field that has long been dominated by an ethics of principle, Medicine and the Ethics of Care will appeal to scholars and students who want to move beyond the constraints of that traditional approach. |