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Care ethics: An ethics of empathy?

open access: yesNursing Ethics, 2018
Background: Empathy is a contested concept in the field of care ethics. According to its proponents, empathy is a unique way to connect with others, to understand what is at stake for them, and to help guide moral deliberation.
van Dijke, J. L. C.   +3 more
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ETHICS IN MANAGED CARE

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2000
The current era of managed costs and care create ethical dilemmas based on economic constraints and incorporation of principles of distributive justice. Traditional ethical concerns related to confidentiality, conflicts of interest, double agentry, and honesty are complicated by interference in the doctor-patient relationship caused by intrusive ...
J A, Lazarus, S S, Sharfstein
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The Ethics of Caring

Journal of Holistic Nursing, 1992
Interest in the concept of caring and the ethics of caring has grown as technology and depersonalization of health care delivery have increased. Major concepts of the ethics of caring are reviewed, with special focus on relating caring and virtue ethics.
A, Sprengel, J, Kelley
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The ethics of nursing care and ‘the ethic of care’

Nursing Inquiry, 1995
Recent discussions concerning the ethics of nursing care have gained added impetus from articulations of die so‐called ‘ethic of carersquo; in moral philosophy. This paper addresses the question of recognizing and elaborating the ethics of nursing care by exploring the problems and the possibilities of diese intersecting discourses.
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Ethical care in dementia

BMJ, 2009
Requires respect for patient autonomy, partnership with families, and education More than 24 million people are living with dementia worldwide,1 and this figure is expected to double every 20 years.1 Dementia is an age related disease—about 25% of Europeans aged 85 or more are affected.1 The increasing number of people with dementia is challenging for
Marja-Liisa, Laakkonen, Kaisu, Pitkälä
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ETHICS AND MANAGED CARE

Medical Clinics of North America, 1996
Managed care presents physicians with potential ethical dilemmas different from dilemmas in traditional fee-for-service practice. The ethical assumptions of managed care are explored, with special attention to the evolving dual responsibilities of physicians as patient advocates and as entrepreneurs.
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Ethics of Care in Caring for the Elderly

Southern Medical Journal, 1994
While some ethical and value issues are unique to the care of the elderly, many are shared with other age groups in medical practice. Efforts at cost containment and the rationing of medical services are impinging deeply on the elderly and placing physicians in roles that may interfere with the covenant of faithfulness that exists between physician and
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Ethics and managed care

Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2002
Managed care in the USA is best understood in the context of the history of health care. It is an effort to manage the soaring costs of health care while retaining quality. Many ethical concerns arise because managed care organizations (MCOs) have dual purposes: to realize profits and to provide quality care.
Mary-T, Dombeck, Tobie H, Olsan
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Ethics of Caring and the Institutional Ethics Committee

Hypatia, 1989
Institutional ethics committees (lECs) in health care facilities now create moral policy, provide moral education, and consult with physicians and other health care workers. After sketching reasons for the development of IECs, this paper first examines the predominant moral standards it is often assumed lECs are now using, these standards being neo ...
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Clinical Ethics and Nursing: “Yes” to Caring, But “No” to a Female Ethics of Care

Bioethics, 1995
AbstractAccording to a contemporary school of thought there is a specific female approach to ethics which is based not on abstract “male” ethical principles or rules, but on “care”. Nurses have taken a keen interest in these female approaches to ethics.
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