Caring Nurses, Women and Ethics

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

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.

Preface	p. ix
Two Nurses	p. 1
A History of Subservience	p. 13
Metaphors and Nursing	p. 15
The Pre-Nightingale Period	p. 17
The Nightingale Period	p. 19
Metaphors of Subservience	p. 21
Raised from the Sink	p. 29
Conclusion	p. 31
Advocacy or Subservience for the Sake of Patients?	p. 34
A Change in Metaphor	p. 36
Nursing--a Naturally Subservient Profession?	p. 41
Subservience for the Sake of Life or Limb?	p. 48
Professional Experts are not Ethical Experts	p. 55
Do Patients Need Subservient Mother Surrogates?	p. 58
Conclusion	p. 60
Ethics	p. 63
Ethics is Not...	p. 64
Minimally Ethics is...	p. 74
The Minimum Conception of Ethics	p. 83
Conclusion	p. 88
Women and Ethics: Is Morality Gendered?	p. 90
Female Virtues and Male Reason?	p. 91
Carol Gilligan and the Ethics of Care	p. 98
Do Women Speak in a Different Voice?	p. 104
Nature or Nurture?	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 112
Care versus Justice: An Old Debate in New Clothes?	p. 113
The Care Critique of Traditional Ethics	p. 116
The Critique of Principles and Rules	p. 118
The Critique of Impartialism	p. 131
Why Partialism Cannot Replace Impartialism	p. 137
Care versus Justice--Not a Matter of Gender	p. 138
Conclusion	p. 140
'Yes' to Caring--But 'No' to a Nursing Ethics of Care	p. 142
Care	p. 145
What Kind of Nurse--Patient Relationship?	p. 147
The Importance of Dispositional Care	p. 150
Care is Not Sufficient: A Critique of Noddings	p. 152
The Object of Nursing Care	p. 157
Care Knows No Limits, No Fairness and Equality	p. 159
Silenced by Care	p. 161
Conclusion: The Same Old Tune, Sung Upside Down?	p. 162
Just Caring at the End of Life	p. 167
Caring at the End of Life	p. 169
Medical End-of-Life Decisions: The Traditional View	p. 175
Rejecting the Traditional View for the Sake of Care	p. 180
Some Objections	p. 184
Public Policy, Impartiality and Justice	p. 186
Some More Objections	p. 190
The Malleability and Constructability of End-of-Life Decisions	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 196
Nursing: The Slumbering Giant	p. 199
Nurses as Patient Advocates	p. 199
Nursing: The Slumbering Giant	p. 203
End-of-Life Decisions	p. 207
The Need for Collective Action	p. 214
Conclusion	p. 218
Notes	p. 220
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 286
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