Description
Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to the attempts to base nursing ethics on a feminine 'ethics of care'. This book offers a philosophical and practical examination of what has come to be known as the 'justice versus care' debate. It suggests a decision-making framework in which nurses play a central role.
Trade Review"This book is provocative and a 'must' for all nurses who are or ought to be engaged in nurse ethics."
Ulla Fasting, Nursing Ethics "Kuhse's book is a contribution to the professionalisation of the nurses and contributes also to the improvement of the ethical discourses regarding end-of-life discussions in clinical care." Marieke Janssen, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
Table of ContentsPreface.
1. Two Nurses.
2. A History of Subservience.
3. Advocacy or Subservience for the Sake of the Patients?.
4. Ethics.
5. Women and Ethics - Is Morality Gendered?.
6. Care Versus Justice : An Old Debate in New Clothes?.
7."Yes" to Caring - but "No" to a Nursing Ethics of Care.
8. Just Caring at the End of Life.
9. Nursing - The Slumbering Giant.
Bibliography.
