The care perspective and autonomy.
Med Health Care Philos
; 4(3): 289-94, 2001.
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ABSTRACT
In this article I wish to show how care ethics puts forward a fundamental critique on the ideal of independency in human life without thereby discounting autonomy as a moral value altogether. In care ethics, a relational account of autonomy is developed instead. Because care ethics is sometimes criticized in the literature as hopelessly vague and ambiguous, I shall begin by elaborating on how care ethics and its place in ethical theory can be understood. I shall stipulate a definition of care ethics as a moral perspective or orientation from which ethical theorizing can take place. This will mean that care ethics is more a stance from which we can theorize ethically, than ready-made theory in itself. In conceiving care ethics in this way, it becomes possible to make clear that, for instance, a moral concept of autonomy is not abandoned, but instead is given a particular place and interpretation. In the final part of this article I will show how 'relational autonomy' can be applied fruitfully in the practice of psychiatric care.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Relações Médico-Paciente
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Paternalismo
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Autonomia Pessoal
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Teoria Ética
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Ética Médica
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Assistência ao Paciente
Aspecto:
Ethics
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Med Health Care Philos
Assunto da revista:
ETICA
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Holanda
País de publicação:
HOLANDA
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HOLLAND
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NETHERLANDS
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NL
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PAISES BAJOS
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THE NETHERLANDS