Ethics of care and HIV: a case for rural women in India.
Recent literature shows that ethics of care can be used as a theoretical basis to add a new, important dimension to social issues. This paper argues for a similar extension of the theoretical support from ethics of care to an area in bioethics. Specifically, it contends that a justification based ethics of care can be constructed to argue for a moral obligation to give some priority in the HIV-related initiatives to one of most vulnerable groups; namely, the rural women in India. In an epidemic situation this care-based approach has certain advantages as a moral justification over the usual traditional approaches.
Chakraborti
Chhanda
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Associate Professor, Philosophy, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. chhanda@iitkgp.ac.in
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics*; D004645:Empathy; D028663:Ethical Theory; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D028681:Moral Obligations; D011203:Poverty; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012424:Rural Population; D012935:Social Justice; D014930:Women