Caring Nurses, Women and Ethics [Paperback]

This volume provides a critical introduction to contemporary attempts to base nursing ethics on a feminine 'ethics of care'.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.

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

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.This volume provides a critical introduction to contemporary attempts to base nursing ethics on a feminine ethics of care .

At the heart of this book is a philosophical and practical examination of what has come to be known as the justice versus care debate. The 'care' approach, Kuhse argues, is dangerous and may perpetuate the moral disenfranchizement of women and nurses. In advancing a conception of just caring , the author suggests a decision-making framework in which nurses play a central role. In such a framework the terminally ill would not onlƒ'