Overview
Written by international experts in the field
Discusses the most up-to-date approaches in feminist ethics
Offers practical applications of feminist ethics in nursing care
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Nursing Ethics and Feminist Theoretical Challenges
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Nursing Ethics in Organisation, Clinical Practice, and Research through a Feminist Lens
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About this book
The aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics. It engages in the broader nursing ethics project of critiquing existing ethical frameworks as well as constructing and developing alternative understandings, concepts, and methodologies. All of the contributors draw attention to the operations of power inherent in moral relationships at individual, institutional, cultural, and socio-political levels. The early essays chart the development of feminist perspectives in the field of nursing ethics from the late 19th century to the present day and consider the impact of gender roles and gendered understandings on the moral lives of nurses, patients and families. They also consider the transformative potential of feminist perspectives to widen the scope of nursing and midwifery practices to include the social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of moral decision-making in health care settings. The second half of the book draws on feminist insights to critically discuss the role of nurses and midwives in leadership, healthcare organisations, and research as well as the provision of particular forms of care e.g. care in the home and abortion care.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Joan McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Ireland, and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. She is the co-author of Nursing Ethics: Irish Cases and Concerns (with Dolores Dooley) and End-of-Life Care: Ethics and Law (with Mary Donnelly, Dolores Dooley, Louise Campbell, and David Smith).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nursing Ethics: Feminist Perspectives
Editors: Helen Kohlen, Joan McCarthy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49104-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49103-1Published: 10 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49106-2Published: 10 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49104-8Published: 09 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 187
Topics: Nursing Ethics, Public Health