Emotion and the Care Ethic in Clinical Deliberation

2001 ◽  
pp. 141-156
Author(s):  
Mark F. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Care Ethic

Care Ethics: A Concept in Search of a Framework

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erich H. Loewy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Healthcare Setting ◽  
The Other ◽  
Care Ethic ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper, I want to try to put what has been termed the “care ethics” into a different perspective. While I will discuss primarily the use of that ethic or that term as it applies to the healthcare setting in general and to the deliberation of consultants or the function of committees more specifically, what I have to say is meant to be applicable to the problem of using a notion like “caring” as a fundamental precept in ethical decision making. I will set out to examine the relationship between theoretical ethics, justice-based reasoning, and care-based reasoning and conclude by suggesting not only that all are part of a defensible solution when adjudicating individual cases, but that these three are linked and can, in fact, be mutually corrective. I will claim that using what has been called “the care ethic” alone is grossly insufficient for solving individual problems and that the term can (especially when used without a disciplined framework) be extremely dangerous. I will readily admit that while blindly using an approach based solely on theoretically derived principles is perhaps somewhat less dangerous, it is bound to be sterile, unsatisfying, and perhaps even cruel in individual situations. Care ethics, as I understand the concept, is basically a non- or truly an anti-intellectual kind of ethic in that it tries not only to value feeling over thought in deliberating problems of ethics, but indeed, would almost entirely substitute feeling for thought. Feeling when used to underwrite undisciplined and intuitive action without theory has no head and, therefore, no plan and no direction; theory eventuating in sterile rules and eventually resulting in action heedlessly based on such rules lacks humanity and heart. Neither one nor the other is complete in itself. There is no reason why we necessarily should be limited to choosing between these two extremes.

Compassion in the Garden: Radical Homemakers or Just More Women’s Work?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-166
Author(s):  
Renée Mickelburgh
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Care Ethic ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Domestic Practice ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
Lauren Berlant

Abstract Compassion is key to Australian women’s garden stories and return-to-the-home environmentalism. These stories highlight the gendered power implications of women’s work. Questions about who is suffering and who is caring are paramount. Women’s garden narratives are hopeful: they capture the interconnection between the local and global and the ethics of care promoted by ecofeminists. Yet when women gardeners embrace a care ethic which sees their own domestic workload skyrocket in order to alleviate environmental suffering, their compassion stories risk becoming what Lauren Berlant terms ‘collective norms of obligation’. Through aural storytelling in Pip permaculture magazine podcasts, women gardeners consider how the responsibility of ordinary, caring garden work fits within their already numerous, significant, and everyday caring responsibilities. Their collaboration reveals innovative solutions to this conundrum. Their compassionate garden work becomes a domestic practice of time, effort, and joy.

Making Trouble: Mindfulness as a Care Ethic

2016 ◽  
pp. 315-341
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Stingl ◽  
Sabrina M. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Care Ethic

scholarly journals Beyond Just Justice - Creating Space for a Future-Care Ethic

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Makoff ◽  
Rupert Read
Keyword(s):  
Care Ethic ◽  
Future Care

scholarly journals Trabajo de cuidado de la vejez en una sociedad en envejecimiento

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier A. Pineda Duque
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Care Ethic ◽  
Old People ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sociedad Civil ◽  
Las Mujeres

Resumen: Este artículo se propone explorar el contextodel envejecimiento de la población en Bogotá, asícomo el trabajo de cuidado y las distintas condicioneslaborales que se ofrecen a las cuidadoras en las casasu hogares gerontológicos de carácter privado, tantodesde el mercado, con la aparición de nuevas entidadescon ánimo de lucro, como desde la sociedad civil, apartir de iniciativas de organizaciones sin ánimo delucro. Se reconoce la alta feminización del trabajode cuidado, como también del envejecimiento (mayoresperanza de vida para las mujeres). Se realizaronentrevistas en seis establecimientos, casas u hogaresgerontológicos de carácter privado, a trabajadorasremuneradas y no, administradores y ancianos, de lascuales se seleccionaron y procesaron doce entrevistassemi-estructuradas a trabajadoras remuneradas decuidado. Las experiencias de las mujeres cuidadoras dela vejez muestran las posibilidades de la humanizacióndel cuidado y de las relaciones sociales, en laconstrucción de una ética de cuidado que tiene bases enla transformación de las identidades de las cuidadoras.En general las trabajadoras han logrado, a través dela creación de sistemas de significados independientes,revalorar y privilegiar lazos emocionales con losresidentes, construyendo la dignidad en el trabajo sobrelos cimientos de los apegos emocionales.Palabras clave: trabajo de cuidado, vejez, ética decuidado, dependenciaCare Work for Old People in an Aging SocietyAbstract: This paper aims at exploring aging contextsfor the population of Bogotá as well as care work andthe different labor conditions for caretakers in privategeriatric homes, from the viewpoint of the market, as newfor profit entities appear, and from the viewpoint of civilsociety, represented by nonprofit organizations. Thereis a high feminization of care work, and of aging (dueto women’s higher life expectancies). Interviews werecarried out in six institutions, homes or assisted livingfacilities, to paid workers and volunteers, administratorsand old people, of which 12 semi-structured interviewsof paid care workers were selected and processed.The experiences of these female care workers showthe possibilities of humanization of care and socialrelations, in the construction of a care ethic based on thetransformation of the workers identities. In general theworkers have achieved through the creation of systemsof meaning, to revalue and privilege emotional ties withthe residents, building dignity at work on the grounds ofemotional attachments.Key words: care work, old people, care ethics, dependence

The Unhappy Marriage of Care Ethics and Virtue Ethics

Hypatia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Sander-Staudt
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Virtue Ethic ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Care Ethic

The proposal that care ethic(s) (CE) be subsumed under the framework of virtue ethic(s) (VE) is both promising and problematic for feminists. Although some attempts to construe care as a virtue are more commendable than others, they cannot duplicate a freestanding feminist CE. Sander-Staudt recommends a model of theoretical collaboration between VE and CE that retains their comprehensiveness, allows CE to enhance VE as well as be enhanced by it, and leaves CE open to other collaborations.

The Contemporary Debate in Animal Ethics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Garner
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Care Ethic ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Standing Humans

This final chapter explores the range of ideas current in the contemporary animal ethics debate. Much of the chapter is devoted to documenting the critique of the animal welfare ethic, which holds that, while animals have moral standing, humans, being persons, have a superior moral status. Three different strands of this critique—based on utilitarian, rights, and contractarian approaches—are identified and explored. The final part of the chapter documents the fragmentation of the animal ethics debate in recent years. This has included a more nuanced position which seeks to decouple animal rights from abolitionism, accounts of animal ethics from virtue ethics and capabilities perspectives, and a relational turn associated with the feminist care ethic tradition and, more recently, the utilization of citizenship theory by Donaldson and Kymlicka.

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