Nursing Ethics: Feminist Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783030491031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 187 str.

Helen Kohlen; Joan McCarthy

Recenzje

"All ten book chapters are written by experienced researchers and lecturers in the field of medical, healthcare and/or feminist ethics, philosophy, care policy and/or law, nursing, etc. ... Nursing Ethics: Feminist Perspectives is a much welcomed book and should be read by students, academics, professionals, and the broader public to gain a holistic view and deeper understanding of nursing and all its ethical dimensions." (Tijs Vandemeulebroucke, Ethik in der Medizin, Vol. 33, 2021)

Spis treści

Foreword      (Ann Gallagher)

Introduction (Joan McCarthy and Helen Kohlen)

I. Nursing Ethics and feminist theoretical challenges

Chapter 1        The influence of the social location of nurses-as-women on the early development of nursing ethics (Marsha Fowler)

Chapter 2        An evolution of feminist thought in nursing ethics (Elizabeth Peter &  

                       Joan Liaschenko)

Chapter 3        Piecing together a puzzle: Feminist materialist philosophy and nursing ethics (Janice Thompson)

Chapter 4        Bearing witness and testimony in nursing: An ethical-political practice (Christine Ceci, Mikelle Djkowich, Olga Petroskaya)

Chapter 5        Intercultural perspectives (Dianne Wepa)

Interlude        Joan Tronto on care ethics and nursing ethics: an interview (Joan Tronto)

II. Nursing ethics in organisation, clinical practice, and research through a feminist lens

Chapter 6        Organisation ethics, relational leadership and nursing (Louise Campbell)

Chapter 7        Hospital Ethics Committees and the dismissal of nursing ethical concerns: A feminist perspective (Helen Kohlen)   

Chapter 8        Feminist reflections on home, digital health technologies and ethics

                        (Elizabeth Peter)

Chapter 9        Conscience, conscientious objection and commitment: midwives, nurses and abortion care (Joan McCarthy and Sheelagh McGuinness)

Chapter 10      Feminist ethics in nursing research  (Heike Felzman)

O autorze

Helen Kohlen is Professor of Care Policy and Ethics at the Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar, Germany and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of Conflicts of Care: Hospital Ethics Committees in the USA and Germany and co-editor of Moral Boundaries Redrawn: The Significance of Joan Tronto’s Argument for Political Theory, Professional Ethics, and Care as Practice (with Gert Olthuis, and Jorma Heier).

Joan McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Ireland, and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. She is the co-author of Nursing Ethics: Irish Cases and Concerns (with Dolores Dooley) and End-of-Life Care: Ethics and Law (with Mary Donnelly, Dolores Dooley, Louise Campbell, and David Smith).

Blurb

The aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics. It engages in the broader nursing ethics project of critiquing existing ethical frameworks as well as constructing and developing alternative understandings, concepts, and methodologies. All of the contributors draw attention to the operations of power inherent in moral relationships at individual, institutional, cultural, and socio-political levels. The early essays chart the development of feminist perspectives in the field of nursing ethics from the late 19th century to the present day and consider the impact of gender roles and gendered understandings on the moral lives of nurses, patients and families. They also consider the transformative potential of feminist perspectives to widen the scope of nursing and midwifery practices to include the social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of moral decision-making in health care settings.  The second half of the book draws on feminist insights to critically discuss the role of nurses and midwives in leadership, healthcare organisations, and research as well as the provision of particular forms of care e.g. care in the home and abortion care.