Publicerad: 2013-01-28
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (tryckt), 1650-3740 (online)
My presentation will focus on the question of how care-ethicists describe justice; and to be more precise: justice in modern health care with special emphasis on the physician-patient relationship.
In the following paper; I would like to give a short introduction to the intensified conflict of the physician’s professional role in modern medicine and I will argue for the relevance of the physician-patient relationship in the context of justice. In the next step; I will characterise the ethics of care as an approach of normative ethical theory. The ethics of care puts a special focus on relationships and the particular other (what exactly is meant by that I will figure out later). On the basis of this focus I will examine whether the ethics of care can add new aspects to the question of how to deal with problems of justice in modern health care with regard to the physician-patient relationship. In particular; I will take into account the position of Michael Slote and his recent book “The Ethics of Care and Empathy” where he states that the ethics of care are able to deal with questions of justice. Among other things that I cannot mention in this context; Slote suggests the distinction between personal and humanitarian caring in order to clarify our moral obligations to help others. To conclude this discussion; I will come back to the questions of what the ethics of care can contribute to the discussion of justice in health care and which consequences can be drawn for the physicianpatient relationship.
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