Can there be an ethics of care?

ALLMARK, P. J. (1995). Can there be an ethics of care? Journal of medical ethics, 21 (1), 19-24.

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Abstract

There is a growing body of writing, for instance from the nursing profession, espousing an approach to ethics based on care. I suggest that this approach is hopelessly vague and that the vagueness is due to an inadequate analysis of the concept of care. An analysis of 'care' and related terms suggests that care is morally neutral. Caring is not good in itself but only when it is for the right things and expressed in the right way. 'Caring' ethics assumes wrongly that caring is good, thus it can tell us neither what constitutes those right things, nor what constitutes the right way.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Centre for Health and Social Care Research
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.21.1.19
Page Range:	19-24
Depositing User:	Caroline Fixter
Date Deposited:	29 Apr 2010 16:07
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 09:15
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/1749

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