Caring Nurses, Women and Ethics

This volume provides a critical introduction to contemporary attempts to base nursing ethics on a feminine 'ethics of care'.

Preface.

1. Two Nurses.

2. A History of Subservience.

3. Advocacy or Subservience for the Sake of the Patients?.

4. Ethics.

5. Women and Ethics - Is Morality Gendered?.

6. Care Versus Justice : An Old Debate in New Clothes?.

7."Yes" to Caring - but "No" to a Nursing Ethics of Care.

8. Just Caring at the End of Life.

9. Nursing - The Slumbering Giant.

Bibliography.

Helga Kuhse is the Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely in the field of bioethics and is editor of Monash Bioethics Review and, with Peter Singer, co-editor of the international journal Bioethics.