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A L Carse

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PubMed1998

Impartial principle and moral context: securing a place for the particular in ethical theory.

This essay critically assesses two strategies of accommodation used by defenders of impartialism in ethics to argue that the care orientation represents no genuine challenge to impartialist theoretical paradigms. One strategy focuses on impartiality as a constraint on moral deliberation, the other as a constraint on moral justification. While highlighting respects in which the commitment to impartiality is more consonant with the care orientation than many advocates of care have acknowledged, this essay attempts to clarify crucial ways in which each accommodationist strategy fails, thus locating some of the more important contributions and challenges the care orientation offers to moral theory.

Empathy↗
PubMed1996

Rehabilitating care.

The feminist ethic of care has often been criticized for its inability to address four problems--the problem of exploitation as it threatens care givers, the problem of sustaining care-giver integrity, the dangers of conceiving the mother-child dyad normatively as a paradigm for human relationships, and the problem of security social justice on a broad scale among relative strangers. We argue that there are resources within the ethic of care for addressing each of these problems, and we sketch strategies for developing the ethic more fully.

Caregivers↗
PubMed1995

[Qualified particularism and affiliative virtue: emphasis of a recent trend in ethics].

This paper explores the implications for medical ethics of ethic of care. It characterizes the ethic of care in terms of two principal commitments, to qualified particularism and to the challenge to the centrality of affiliative virtue. Both of these commitments pose a much standard work in medical ethics characterizing moral judgment and responses as essentially impartial, principled and dispassionate. A care-oriented medical ethics will, it is suggested, call on us to focus on those virtues needed to sustain community and enhance effective communication and interpersonal understanding within the practices of health care. It stresses healing rather than curing as the objective of medical and nursing care; and it emphasizes the importance of trust in clinical relationship. As a methodological approach, the ethic of care highlights the limitations of principle-based approaches in guiding moral judgment and response, asserting the value of institutional narratives as guides to moral practice.

Bioethics↗
PubMed1991

The 'voice of care': implications for bioethical education.

This paper examines the 'justice' and 'care' orientations in ethical theory as characterized in Carol Gilligan's research on moral development and the philosophical work it has inspired. Focus is placed on challenges to the justice orientation--in particular, to the construal of impartiality as the mark of the moral point of view, to the conception of moral judgment as essentially principle-driven and dispassionate, and to models of moral responsibility emphasizing norms of formal equality and reciprocity. Suggestions are made about the implications of these challenges, and of the care orientation in ethics, for the ethical theory taught, the issues addressed, and the skills and sensitivities encouraged through bioethical education.

Beneficence↗