Altruism and mature care: Some rival moral considerations in care ethics
Introduction:We discuss Carol Gilligan's original concept of mature care in the light of the altruistic approach to caring and good clinical judgment.Discussion:In particular, we highlight how the concept of mature care can capture important challenges in today's nursing. Further, we illum...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2014
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Nursing ethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 21, Issue: 7, Pages: 794-802 |
| Further subjects: | B
Nursing Care
B mature care B clinical judgment B Altruism B Moral Motivation B Virtues B Normativity |
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| Summary: | Introduction:We discuss Carol Gilligan's original concept of mature care in the light of the altruistic approach to caring and good clinical judgment.Discussion:In particular, we highlight how the concept of mature care can capture important challenges in today's nursing. Further, we illuminate how mature care might differ normatively from an altruistic approach to caring and the traditional prudential virtues in nursing. We also discuss similarities between mature care and virtue ethics.Conclusion:For nursing and nurses' identity, in today's health care system that is increasingly pressured to ‘produce' health, we believe it is important to both developing further theories on mature care and having normative discussions about care. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-0989 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0969733014521094 |