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1 online resource (139 pages) |
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Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society |
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Routledge key themes in health and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Partiality and impartiality in nursing care; Impartiality and distributive justice in clinical nursing care; The notion of partiality; 2. Partiality and professional ethics in nursing care; Nurses and the nursing profession; Partiality and professional roles; Partiality, agent-relativity, and agent-neutrality; Concluding remarks; 3. On the concept of need for nursing care; Central features of the needs concept; The normativity of presence; Concluding remarks |
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4. Care ethics, partiality, and interpersonal relationshipsJustice and care: a normative problem of care ethics; Mature care, the analogue problem, and moral conflicts; Conclusion on care ethics in professional care; 5. Towards a prerogative for partiality in nursing care; The normative value of what we care about; A prerogative of partiality in nursing; Consequentialism and role-relativity; Concluding remarks; 6. Partiality, justice, and moral dilemmas; Partiality and the formal principle of justice; Partiality, tragic choices, and moral blamelessness; Concluding remarks |
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7. Towards an ethics of nursing careFour requirements of a non-systematic ethical outlook; Concluding remarks; Index |
| Summary |
"Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care examines the conflicting normative claims of partiality and impartiality in nursing care, looking in depth at how to reconcile reasonable concerns for one particular patient with equally important concerns for the maximisation of health-related welfare for all with relevant nursing-care needs, in a resource-limited setting. Drawing on moral philosophy, this book explores how discussions of partiality and impartiality in moral philosophy can have relevance to the professional context of clinical nursing care as well as in nursing ethics in general. It develops a framework for normative nursing ethics that incorporates a notion of permissible partiality, and specifies which concerns an ethics of nursing care should entail when balancing partialist and impartialist concerns. At the same time, Nordhaug argues that this partiality must also be constrained by both principled and context-sensitive assessments of patients' needs, as well as of the role-relative deontological restriction of minimising harm, something that could be mitigated by institutional and organisational arrangements. This thought-provoking volume is an important contribution to nursing ethics and philosophy."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nursing ethics.
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Ethics, Nursing
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MEDICAL -- Ethics.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Nursing ethics
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351812528 |
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1351812521 |
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