Ethics Of Care

Define the Ethics of Care Ethics of care are also called care ethics, it is a feminist philosophical perspective that uses a relation and context approach toward morality and decision making. The term itself “ethics of care” refers to two ideas that concern the nature of morality and the normative ethical theory. According to David Hume, contended that morality is founded upon and rooted in feelings on matters of morality, “that which renders morality an active virtue.” Which depends on internal sense or feelings, that was made universal in species by nature. Therefore, morality as an active role requires two feelings, the first is the sentiment of natural caring. There can be no ethical feelings without the enabling sentiment. Where we care …show more content…
There are four phases of caring for patients that involves cognitive, emotional, and action strategies. Tronto expressed these four phases through a patient, nurse interaction. Mr. Jones, a 59 patient, was admitted to the hospital for acute abdominal pain. He has a long history of alcoholism and uncontrolled diabetes, and has a left below the knee amputation. After four months, his wife dead after 40 years of marriage. Mr. Jones stopped taking care of himself due to his wife’s death. In Mr. Jones’s case the nurse in phase one (caring about) noticed the need for increased pain medication for the patient’s pain. In phase two ( taking care of), the nurse responded to the level of pain the patient was experiencing. Therefore, in case three (caregiving), the nurse took action and seeked the physician for a change in pain medications, and the doses were increased. This is the work of reacting to a patient’s needs. Facing conflict with this physician is a necessary part of care (Kohlen, 2011; Lachman, 2009). Finally, in phase four (care receiving), the nurse evaluates the success of the intervention with the patient who received the …show more content…
But women can never fully escape the influence of socially constructed gender that has variously overfeminized or underfeminized them, placing them in social roles that restrict their freedom of thought, will, and action (Riley, 1988; Rosenberg, 1982). So according to a study that Gilligan cites, if women were eliminated from the research sample, the care focus in moral reasoning would virtually disappear. Therefore, gender differences contribute important insights about how ethics of caring might positively influence the practice of ethics and politics. For example, nursing is practiced primarily by women, it is in the interest of nurses to explore modes of being ethical and political that reflect their lived experiences as women (Thompson, 72). Opponents of feminism in care ethics may prefer a more masculine view of care ethics. This theory is critical on how caring is socially engendered to women and consequently