In defense of ethically caring physicians

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Professional Burnout ◽  
Michael Slote ◽  
Ethical Caring

Ever since its introduction 20 years ago, the Ethics of Care has encountered sharp opposition in the context of medical practice. In this essay I endeavour to provide a systematic defence of ethical caring as a virtue for physicians. I begin by briefly describing the initial formulation of the Ethics of Care. I then present the arguments by critics who oppose ethical caring in medical practice. These arguments range from assertions that caring physicians will be more likely to suffer from professional burnout to claims that they will become more likely to be unethically paternalistic. Next, I will identify more recent contributions to the Ethics of Care from Rita Manning and Michael Slote. Armed with a more fully developed conception of ethical caring, I respond to each of the critical arguments. I finish by describing how ethical caring fits nicely with a well regarded understanding of the physicianpatient relationship.

scholarly journals Michael Slote (2007) The ethics of care and empathy

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-78
Author(s):  
Nikola Biller-Andorno
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Michael Slote

Sentiment, care, and respect

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Darwall
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Accountable Care ◽  
Michael Slote ◽  
Recognition Respect

Michael Slote proposes a rethinking of moral education from the perspective of a normative ethics of care combined with his distinctive sentimentalist metaethics. I raise questions concerning the role of empathy in Slote’s picture and argue that empathy is related to respect and sentiments through which we hold ourselves and one another accountable. Care in the sense of benevolent concern is a fundamentally different attitude from (recognition) respect: whereas the former is focused on its object’s well-being, the latter responds to a person’s dignity and authority to make claims and demands of us.

scholarly journals O Cuidado Empático: Contribuições para a Ética e Sua Interface com a Educação Moral na Formação em Saúde

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo de Almeida Mayernyik ◽  
Fabio Alves Gomes de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Michael Slote

RESUMO O presente artigo apresenta alguns pontos essenciais do pensamento do filósofo Michael Slote em sua obra “The ethics of care and empathy”. Situamos a sua produção no contexto em que a ética do cuidado foi desenvolvida e problematizada, evidenciando, sobretudo, a questão de gênero que atravessa essa perspectiva ética. Assim, convocamos autores e autoras que dialogam estreitamente com as questões levantadas por Slote como interlocutores fundamentais para se pensar a empatia como componente fundamental da ética do cuidado. Em sequência, resgatamos o sentido ontológico do cuidado e da responsabilidade, correlacionando-os com a prática do cuidado em saúde. Ao final, apresentamos um caso paradigmático para um debate concreto da ética do cuidado e empatia no âmbito da educação moral, destacando sua importância no processo de formação dos profissionais de saúde no Brasil.

Harm in the absence of care: Towards a medical ethics that cares

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elin Martinsen
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Carol Gilligan ◽  
Contemporary Medicine

The aim of this article is to investigate the concept of care in contemporary medical practice and medical ethics. Although care has been hailed throughout the centuries as a crucial ideal in medical practice and as an honourable virtue to be observed in codes of medical ethics, I argue that contemporary medicine and medical ethics suffer from the lack of a theoretically sustainable concept of care and then discuss possible reasons that may help to explain this absence. I draw on the empirical studies of Carol Gilligan on care and connectedness as ontologically situated realities in human life. Based on a philosophical elaboration of her findings on the ethics of care emphasizing relationality, I try to show how the notion of ‘relational ontology’ originating from this stream of thought may be of help in developing a medical ethics that acknowledges care as a perspective to be observed in all interactions between physicians and patients.

Michael Slote and ‘Sentimentalist moral education’

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
Thomas Wren
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Michael Slote ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Human Emotions

Although I think most of what Michael Slote asserts in his article ‘Sentimentalist moral education’ is correct, I worry about three important ideas that are conspicuous by their absence. The first is the possibility that human emotions and feelings are inherently cognitive, which is never considered in his psychological account of empathy. The second is that his metaethical claim that ‘our very understanding of moral terms and moral principles rests on a foundation of empathy’ fails to recognize the culture-specific character of the very concept of morality. My third misgiving is that Slote overstates the now-standard distinction between the ethics of care and the ethics of principles, which I argue is a matter of emphasis, not opposition, especially in the context of moral education.

Michael Slote, The Ethics of Care and Empathy

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-253
Author(s):  
James A. E. Macpherson
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Michael Slote

PSYCHOLOGICAL VECTOR OF OVERCOMING PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT IN ONCOLOGISTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.I. Filippchenkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Professional Burnout ◽  
Individual Counseling ◽  
Interpersonal Conflicts ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Psychological Training ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Professional Health ◽  
Tver Region

Abstract: Oncologists are at high risk of developing professional burnout, which leads to a loss of individual and professional health, a decrease in the quality of medical services, medical errors, and interpersonal conflicts with colleagues and patients. Preservation of health in the professional activities of oncologists initiates the development of a system of psychological support for their professional activities, including psychological trainings, group and individual counseling in the context of the problems of medical practice. The aim of the study was to test the author's program for the correction of professional burnout in doctors. The study involved 45 oncologists from the Tver region. The psychodiagnostic toolkit of the study was made up by V.V. Boyko modified by E.P. Ilyin. Significant indicators of reduction of the leading symptoms of professional burnout among doctors were registered according to the results of testing carried out before and after the training. Conclusions of the study: the results of psychodiagnostic testing and approbation in medical practice confirm the effectiveness of the developed psychological training program in the prevention and correction of professional burnout of oncologists.

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