The core of care ethics

Core topics of health care ethics. The identification of core topics for interprofessional education.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this project was to identify core topics of health care ethics that could be taught through an inter-professional approach to undergraduate education. DESIGN Five nominal group technique workshops. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Teaching staff from different professional disciplines in our university (nursing branches, occupational therapy and physiotherapy). RESULTS Seven...

The ethics of loving care.

The Care Dialog: the “ethics of care” approach and its importance for clinical ethics consultation

Ethics consultation in institutions of the healthcare system has been given a standard form based on three pillars: education, the development of guidelines and concrete ethics consultation in case conferences. The spread of ethics committees, which perform these tasks on an organizational level, is a remarkable historic achievement. At the same time it cannot be denied that modern ethics consu...

From ethics of care to psychology of care: reconnecting ethics of care to contemporary moral psychology

Moral psychology once regarded ethics of care as a promising theory. However, there is evidence to suggest that nowadays moral psychology completely ignores ethics of care's various insights. Moreover, ethics of care's core concepts - compassion, dependence, and the importance of early relations to moral development- are no longer considered to be relevant to the development of new theories in ...

The practice and ethics of dementia care.

The focus in dementia research on discovery of cause and cure often leaves the care part of the triad hidden from the spotlight. While clinicians, caregivers, and policy makers eagerly await these scientific developments, daily they face challenges in striving best for quality of life for people with dementia and their family caregivers. This issue of the Journal addresses six topics: three rel...