scholarly journals Ethics of justice vs the ethics of care in moral decision making

Curationis ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Botes
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Theories

The question to be addressed in this paper is : How can the ethics of justice and the ethics of care be used complementary to each other in ethical decision making within the health care team? Various arguments are presented that justify the reasons that the ethics of justice and the ethics of care should be used complementary to each other for effective ethical decision making within the health care team. The objective is to explore and describe the compatibility of the ethics of justice and the ethics of care from two perspectives: firstly an analysis of the characteristics of the two ethical theories, and secondly the scientific-philosophical viewpoints of these theories. The two theories are incompatible when viewed from these perspectives. For a probable solution to this incompatibility arguments are presented from the perspectives of reflection and virtue-based ethics.

The Effects of Blogger's Moral Intensity on Ethical Decision Making

2013 ◽  
Vol 311 ◽  
pp. 539-543
Author(s):  
Hui Ling Yang ◽  
Wei Pang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Moral Intensity ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Internet Search Engine ◽  
Ethics Code ◽  
Conflicting Interests

Weblogs, or blog, are rapidly becoming a mainstream technology in the information world. By June 2008, Technorati, an internet search engine, was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. Blogs allow millions of people to easily publish their ideas and millions more to read and evaluate and comment on them. When bloggers write things on their blog they became public. Although bloggers use blogs for many different functions and would likely provide many different definitions of blog (Stutzman, 2004), as we have seen, many bloggers perform journalistic functions. Therefore most moral code for bloggers is credibility in a journalistic sense (Blood, 2002; Dube, 2003), but they are nonprofessional without such code. Generally, blog audiences are built on trust, so bloggers should be honest and fair in gathering, reporting and interpreting information. For example, bloggers should disclose every benefit to any monetary (or other potentially conflicting) interests when appropriate. However, there has been almost no talk about this kind of ethics in the blog world. This study designed three ethical scenarios of blogger behavior against ethics code. Scenarios include blogger promoted her favorable food without disclosure conflict of interests, post other people’s entries without referencing material, and decoding other bloggers’ picture. The purpose of current research was to examine the perception of moral intensity and how the perception directly affected the specific processes of moral decision making of bloggers related to three scenarios.

Moral Decision Making in Business: A Phase-Model

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 773-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aviva Geva
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Problem ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Phase Model ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Ethical Problems

Abstract:The traditional model of ethical decision making in business suggests applying an initial set of principles to a concrete problem and if they conflict the decision maker may attempt to balance them intuitively. The centrality of the ethical conflict in the accepted notion of “ethical problem” has diverted the attention of moral decision modelers from other ethical problems that real-world managers must face—e.g., compliance problems, moral laxity, and systemic problems resulting from the structures and practices of the business organization. The present article proposes a new model for ethical decision making in business—the Phase-model—designed to meet the full spectrum of business-related ethical problems. Drawing on the dominant moral theories in business literature, the model offers additional strategies for tackling ethical issues beyond the traditional cognitive operations of deductive application of principles to specific cases and the balancing of ethical considerations. Its response to the problems of moral pluralism in the context of decision making lies in its structural features. The model distinguishes between three phases of the decision-making process, each having a different task and a different theoretical basis. After an introductory stage in which the ethical problem is defined, the first phase focuses on a principle-based evaluation of a course of action; the second phase provides a virtue-based perspective of the situation and strategies for handling unsettled conflicts and compliance problems; and the third phase adapts the decision to empirical accepted norms. An illustrative case demonstrates the applicability of the model to business real life.

The Evolution of Caring Within Bioethics: Provision for Relationship and Context

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M. deMoissac ◽  
Fay F. Warnock
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Evolutionary Account ◽  
Modern Health Care ◽  
Bioethical Issues ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Given the complexity of modern health care, there exists an urgent need to discover how best to resolve complex bioethical issues. Traditionally, principle based ethics provided the benchmark for guiding ethical decision-making. More recently, however, it has become apparent that this traditional approach is often inadequate in dealing with cur rent health care dilemmas. The notion of caring was advanced initially as an alternative to, then as a complement to, principle based ethics. In this article, caring is conceptual ized as an attitude and is viewed as integral to the advancement of a coherent and inte grated moral approach to ethical decision-making. First, a brief historical description of bioethics is presented. Next, an evolutionary account of caring within bioethics is described. Four fundamental problems associated with the use of caring within bioethics are then outlined. Finally, caring as an attitude is delineated and a case study is used to illustrate the proposed conceptualization of caring. The case study demonstrates that a caring attitude provides for relationship and context, which are elements often neglected by traditional approaches.

Rule Following, Standards of Practice, and Open-mindedness

Paideusis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
James Scott Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Rule Following ◽  
Ethical Judgments ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Standards Of Practice ◽  
Ontario College Of Teachers

In this paper, I discuss the Ontario College of Teachers’ most recent versions of the Standards of Practice with William Hare’s counsel on being open-minded regarding open-mindedness in mind. Specifically, I insist that the use of the Standards of Practice as guidelines for working through cases of professional and ethical issues requires yet another rule to indicate when to deviate from this or that standard. In this way, open-mindedness consists of developing and following rules to indicate when and where specific standards should be bypassed. These rules vary, however, one source of these can be found in what Barbara Herman has called, “Rules of Moral Salience”—rules that guide us in our day-to-day moral decision-making and that we draw on when called upon to make moral-ethical judgments. What this means for various ethics (ethics of care; Kantian-type ethics, psychological and/or developmental accounts of ethics) is also broached.

Culture and Ethics: a Tool for Analysing the Effects of Biases on the Nurse-Patient Relationship

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Elizabeth Greipp
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Care Recipient ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Care Community

For most nurses world-wide, activities are centred around working directly with patients and so the nurse-patient relationship is of the greatest importance. Ethnocentrism on the part of the health care community has led to misdiagnosis, mistreatment and undertreatment of culturally diverse individuals world-wide. This author discusses a tool, Greipp's Model of Ethical Decision-Making, which can be used to assist nurses in analysing the effects of culture, beliefs and diversity upon the caregiver and care recipient within an ethical framework.

Researching lived experience in health care: Significance for care ethics

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé ◽  
Sofie TL Verhaeghe ◽  
Marijke C Kars ◽  
Annemarie Coolbrandt ◽  
Marleen Stevens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Care Recipients ◽  
Imminent Death

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the usefulness of qualitative research for studying the ethics of care, bringing to light the lived experience of health care recipients, together with the importance of methods that allow reconstruction of the processes underlying this lived experience. Lived experiences of families being approached for organ donation, parents facing the imminent death of their child and patients being treated using stem cell transplantation are used to illustrate how ethical principles are differentiated, modified or contradicted by the narrative context of persons concerned. The integration of empirical data into ethics will help caregivers in their ethical decision making and may enrich care ethics as a narrative and interpretative field.

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