Description
Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issues, this book develops and expands the notion of care itself and its connection to practice.
Organised around the themes of culture as a restraint on caregiving in different social contexts and situations, innovative methods in healthcare, and the way in which culture works to position care as part of a rhetorical approach to dependency, responsibility, and justice, The Ethics of Care presents case studies examining institutional responses to end-of-life issues, the notion of informed consent, biomedicine, indigenous rights and postcolonialism in care and theoretical approaches to the concept of care.
Offering discussions from a variety of disciplinary approaches, including sociology, communication, and social theory, as well as hermeneutics, phenomenology, and deconstruction, this book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in healthcare, medicine, justice and the question of how we think about care as a notion and social form, and how this is related to practice.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Dialectic of Care
Part 1: Institutional Contraints, Consent and End-of-life
1. Informed Consent and the Social Regulation of Caregiver Involvement in End-of-life Care
2. Judgement, Care and Informed Consent
3. End-of-life Conflicts, the Law and Arendt's Political Thinking
Part 2: Biomedicine, Social Services and Reparation in the Postcolony
4. The Time of a Life: Ethics and Care in the Case of a Young First Nations Girl
5. Community Development Amongst Urban Aboriginals: Case Study of the Healing of the Seven Generations Canoe Project
6. Postcolonial Negotiations: Care, Aboriginal Rights, and the Challenge of Democracy
Part 3: Communication, Ethical Collisions and the Realities of Care
7. End-of-life as a Symbolic Order: Age in an Era of Mechanical Reproduction
8. Good Patient-Bad Patient: The Ethical Imaginary of Cancer
9. The Clinical Epistemology of Ludwig Binswanger (1881-1966): Psychiatry as a Science of the Singular
10. Critique of Solution-focused Brief Therapy
11. Rethinking the Concept of Care
Afterword: Care, Giving: An Ethical Critique
