Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics

Author:   Helga Kuhse (Monash University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:  

9780631202110


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   25 March 1997
Format:   Paperback
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Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics


Overview

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

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Author:   Helga Kuhse (Monash University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780631202110


ISBN 10:   0631202110
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   25 March 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

"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."

Reviews

"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


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


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


Author Information

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.

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