Bridging Western Ethics and Japanese Local Ethics by Listening to Nurses’ Concerns

Among Japanese nurses ethics is perceived as being distant and unrelated to their practice, although this is filled with ethical concerns and the making of ethical decisions. The reasons for this dissociation are the primacy of western values in modern Japanese health care systems and the suppressio...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Izumi, Shigeko (Συγγραφέας)
Τύπος μέσου: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
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Έκδοση: Sage 2006
Στο/Στη: Nursing ethics
Έτος: 2006, Τόμος: 13, Τεύχος: 3, Σελίδες: 275-283
Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά:B Nursing Ethics
B cultural values
B ethical concerns
B Japanese nurses
B Hermeneutics
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Σύνοψη:Among Japanese nurses ethics is perceived as being distant and unrelated to their practice, although this is filled with ethical concerns and the making of ethical decisions. The reasons for this dissociation are the primacy of western values in modern Japanese health care systems and the suppression of Japanese nurses’ indigenous ethical values because of domination by western ethics. A hermeneutic study was conducted to listen to the ethical voices of Japanese nurses. Seven ethical concerns were revealed. Although some of these concerns may seem to share similar values with western ethical principles, the basis for the concerns was unique and rooted in the Japanese cultural value system. The meanings of each concern are explicated in conjunction with related background meanings. Listening and trying to understand these nurses’ voices in their own context suggests a way of bridging the gap between abstract and universal ethics and practical and local ethics.
ISSN:1477-0989
Περιλαμβάνει:Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1191/0969733006ne874oa