Care Ethics and Social Structures in Medicine (Routledge Annals of Bioethics)

This book examines the central structures in medicine―medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority―from the perspective of an ethics of care. The author analyzes each of these structures in detail before considering the challenges they present to end of life care. The perspective of an ethics of care allows for a careful focus on how these structures affect the capacity of the health care system to provide the care patients need, on the impact they have on the relationships between patients and care-givers, and on how they affect the care-givers in terms of their own sense of identity and capacity for care. This book offers one of the first focused discussions of an ethics of care across a wide range of social issues and structures in contemporary medicine. It will be of keen interest to advanced students and scholars in bioethics and health care ethics who are interested in these important issues.

Politics & Social Sciences

Groenhout, Ruth E.

Philosophy

Routledge

Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care (Feminist Constructions)

Connected Lives examines the account of human nature that is implicit in an ethics of care, a picture of human lives that emphasizes interdependency, embodiment, and social connectedness. The book makes important connections to the picture of human life found in theorists of love such as St. Augustine and Emmanuel Levinas, and shows that when care theory is articulated clearly, it provides resources for thinking through some of the difficult moral issues we face in the contemporary world, issues such as assisted reproduction and the new genetic technologies.

Parenting & Relationships

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Connected Lives examines the account of human nature that is implicit in an ethics of care, a picture of human lives that emphasizes interdependency, embodiment, and social connectedness. The book makes important connections to the picture of human life found in theorists of love such as St. Augustine and Emmanuel Levinas, and shows that when care theory is articulated clearly, it provides resources for thinking through some of the difficult moral issues we face in the contemporary world, issues such as assisted reproduction and the new genetic technologies.

This book examines the central structures in medicine―medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority―from the perspective of an ethics of care. The author analyzes each of these structures in detail before considering the challenges they present to end of life care. The perspective of an ethics of care allows for a careful focus on how these structures affect the capacity of the health care system to provide the care patients need, on the impact they have on the relationships between patients and care-givers, and on how they affect the care-givers in terms of their own sense of identity and capacity for care. This bookoffers one of the first focused discussions of an ethics of care across a wide range of social issues and structures in contemporary medicine. It will be of keen interest to advanced students and scholars in bioethics and health care ethics who are interested in these important issues.

If you think bioethics is just for doctors and scientists, think again. Bioethics touches our everyday lives in so many ways. We ask questions like How should I care for my aging parents? Is stem cell research OK or not? How can my church help a person with a chronic illness? When's the right time to remove a loved one from life support? Author Ruth Groenhout, selected as the 2009-2010 Calvin College Worldview Lecturer, presents these issues from the Bible's perspective using accessible, easy-to-understand language. Discussion questions in each chapter make this book an excellent choice for group study or personal reflection.

Bioethics: Life and Death Choices

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Reformed Church of North America

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Care Ethics and Social Structures in Medicine (Routledge Annals of Bioethics)

Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care (Feminist Constructions)

Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care (Feminist Constructions)

Care Ethics and Social Structures in Medicine (Routledge Annals of Bioethics)

Bioethics: Life and Death Choices