Unsettled Care: Temporality, Subjectivity, and the Uneasy Ethics of Care

Subjectivity and information ethics

1 In " A brief history of information ethics " , Thomas Froehlich (2004) quickly surveys under several broad categories some of the many issues that constitute information ethics: under and violence in the press; and under intercultural information ethics: digital divide, and the ethical role of the Internet for social, political, cultural and economic development. Many of the debates in inform...

On the Uneasy Relationship between Medicaid and Charity Care

Ethics, access, and care.

There are two very different ways of understanding access and care that are at work in contemporary American society. One of these is the understanding that our society's health professions have about access and care as they consider their ethical commitment to respond to patients' oral health needs. The other is how these matters are understood within America's public culture. In this view, ne...

Consumer subjectivity and U.S. health care reform.

Health care consumerism is an important frame in U.S. health care policy, especially in recent media and policy discourse about federal health care reform. This article reports on qualitative fieldwork with health care users to find out how people interpret and make sense of the identity of "health care consumer." It proposes that while the term consumer is normally understood as a descriptive ...

The ethics of loving care.