Masculine and feminine voices: making ethical decisions in the care of the dying.
Drawing on the example of one specific Ethics Committee, the author delineates feminine and masculine styles of ethical decision making and work with the dying as two sides of what it means to be humanistic in patient care. The author draws particularly on the work of Carol Gilligan to differentiate feminine from masculine approaches.
D002140:California; D003657:Decision Making; D032981:Dehumanization; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D026724:Ethical Review; D004989:Ethics; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D035863:Moral Development; D011367:Professional Staff Committees; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012945:Social Values; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*; D028761:Withholding Treatment