
Caring
Nurses, Women and Ethics
Helga Kuhse(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 25. March 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-631-20211-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume provides a critical introduction to contemporary attempts to base nursing ethics on a feminine 'ethics of care'.
Reviews / Votes
"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 PhilosophyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-20211-0 (9780631202110)
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Person
Helga Kuhse is the Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely in the field of bioethics and is editor of Monash Bioethics Review and, with Peter Singer, co-editor of the international journal Bioethics.
Content
Preface. 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.
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.