title: Overview of psychiatric ethics II: Virtue ethics and the ethics of care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this paper is to consider the components of two moral theories--the ethics of virtue and the ethics of care--and their relationship to psychiatry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although both theories reflect fundamentally desirable human qualities, neither provides a comprehensive account of psychiatric ethics. We are therefore drawn to a similar conclusion as those of Hare (1993) and Bloch and Green (2006), in that these theories offer a complementary approach to other ethical theories in psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Sydney South West Area Health Service (Eastern Sector), Sydney, NSW, Australia. mrobertson@med.usyd.edu.au
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.forename: Garry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Walter
mesh_terms: D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006801:Humans; D005791:Patient Care / Q000941:ethics*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000941:ethics*; D012945:Social Values