The ethics of care: a feminist virtue ethics of care for healthcare practitioners.
In this paper I seek to distinguish a feminist virtue ethics of care from (1) justice ethics, (2) narrative ethics, (3) care ethics and (4) virtue ethics. I also connect this contemporary discussion of what makes a virtue ethics of care feminist to eighteenth and nineteenth century debates about male, female, and human virtue. In conclude that by focusing on issues related to gender--primarily those related to the systems, structures, and ideologies that create and sustain patterns of male domination and female subordination--we can begin to appreciate that true care and bona-fide virtue can flourish only in societies that treat all persons with equal respect and consideration.
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Medical Humanities and Philosophy, Davidson College, NC 28036, USA.
D004645:Empathy; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D028663:Ethical Theory; D004989:Ethics; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D035863:Moral Development; D028681:Moral Obligations; D009014:Morals; D033262:Narration; D010684:Philosophy; D012935:Social Justice; D012945:Social Values; D028722:Virtues