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When we want to provide good care, we often take the will of care users as our starting point. However, how do we do this for vulnerable people who are highly dependent on care? This book offers a practical and theory-based method for ethical deliberation. It encourages care providers to engage in ethical empowerment, making their own ethically responsible decisions based on values, virtues and dialogue. This method is applied to important social developments that care providers are challenging today, from evolutions around networks and confidentiality, decision-making capacity and informed consent, assertive care and restriction of freedom to euthanasia. The foundation of this method is a relational care ethics, linking everyone who participates in care with the other parties involved. This relationship forms the link between the care user, the next of kin and the care providers. Good care starts from the connection between people.This book will appeal to all professionals in the care sectors, as well as teachers and students of the ethics of care.

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Axel Liégeois is Full Professor of Care Ethics and Practical Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of KU Leuven, Belgium, where he also holds the Chair of the Brothers of Charity for Theology, Mental Health and Disability. He is also posted as ethical advisor to the Organisation Brothers of Charity in Gent, Belgium, where he coordinates ethics committees and ethical deliberation in facilities providing mental health and disability care. His research, teaching and service focus on ethics in spiritual care and on care for people with mental health problems or intellectual disabilities. His passion is to train and empower people working in ethics, so that they can make responsible decisions based on a method for ethical deliberation.

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