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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Ethics of Care"”.
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The ethics of care or the ethics of justice? : a middle way
… are to examine the tension between the ethics of care and the ethics of justice, offer critical analysis and develop an amalgam of key elements from both. A more sufficient framework for moral decision-making will be proposed and its validity assessed. Part One investigates the ethics of …
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An Ethics of Care Approach to Managing the Burden of Alzheimer's Disease
… as well as society generally. The management of the burdens of Alzheimer’s disease presents a formidable ethical challenge from the perspective of patients and society. The ethics of care is adopted to address this problem because of its flexibility to integrate personal care needs with public …
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The Ethics of Care of the Self as Resistance to a “Peculiar Institution”
This thesis discusses some of the critiques of modern moral theories (deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics) posed by Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Stocker, Bernard Williams, and Susan Wolf. It focuses on Stocker’s challenge that when subjects try to act on such theories they become …
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Faith, Fatherhood, and the Ethics of Care: Exploring Father–Daughter Relationships in South Africa
… contemporary South Africa experience and express care, faith, and emotional intimacy in everyday life. Drawing on qualitative research, it explores the moral and affective dimensions of fatherhood within Christian households, focusing on how love, guidance, discipline, and tenderness coexist in …
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Examining the potential of ethics of care for inclusion of women in Africa higher education discourses
… on the African continent experience moments of internal exclusion in higher education discourses. Although women are statistically represented in higher education discourses, they remain subjected to internal exclusion on the grounds that their contributions are evidently unsubstantive. …
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The Role Of The Ethics Of Care In Transformation: An Examination Of How Nonprofit Leaders Deliver Care
<p>Although nonprofits have done much to aid both orphans and those who live in extreme poverty, the difficulties associated with these social problems can be challenging to overcome. Attempts to reduce such problems are frequently addressed by various government entities. However, these social …
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Using an Ethics of Care to Re-interpret Consent in the Management of Care for Addiction Disorders
… neurocognitive dysfunction and social sequela of substance use disorders and addiction require the empowering support from healthcare professionals; necessitating the need to utilize an ethics of care to re-interpret consent for the management of care for those who suffer from substance use …
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Sexual Violence, Rape Culture, and the Ethics of Care in <em>Promising Young Woman</em> (2020), <em>Blink Twice</em> (2024), and <em>Women Talking</em> (2022)
… by women—through the theoretical framework of the ethics of care, highlighting how these films expose the persistence of rape culture and the systemic failure of institutions to support victims of sexual violence. Drawing on scholarship about rape culture, this analysis shows how the rape …
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Gender differences in policing: a consideration of care ethics
… that examine the relationship between police officers and ethics of care theory are further limited. This study evaluated gender differences in policing to determine whether ethics of care theories apply to female police officers. For the purposes of this study, approximately 400 sworn …
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The "Silent Scream" of "Pathetic Seeds": exploring a feminist ethics of care as a means to broaden the scope of current GM crop risk assessment practices in South Africa
The risk assessment of genetically modified (GM) crops is assumed to be a benign regulatory tool, due to its perceived objectivity and freedom from the morals and values that pervade society. Yet, against the backdrop of growing environmental pressures, social tensions and political instability, …
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Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies
"Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics in Shakespeare's Tragedies" examines two of Shakespeare's most compelling tragedies--Othello and King Lear--through the lens of contemporary virtue ethics theory, thereby offering new conceptions of how morality operates in these plays. Although …
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Ethical consumption among Cape Town students: a qualitative study
Much of current research on ethical consumption biases the North - South relationship of Northern consumers being considered ethical based on their purchasing of items from Southern producers. This establishes the dominant perspective of ethics needing to be expressed toward the distant other and …
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The Contribution of African Traditional Medicine For a Model of Relational Autonomy in Informed Consent
… so dominant that one can fail to see the merits of other traditional and cultural perspectives. In this dissertation, another approach to informed consent is considered -that of communal culture of Africa, a process used in African traditional medicine (ATM) wherein patients make medical …
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utilising a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): a narrative inquiry on the experiences of caregivers in special care centres with online professional development
… right to education for children with severe to profound intellectual disabilities (SPID). Prior to this judgment, these children were considered ineducable and did not have access to education. Consequently, caregivers were often unprepared to shift from a social welfare care model to educational …
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Negotiating Responsibility: Ethics of Choice and Care in Postsocialist Oncology Wards in Serbia
This dissertation problematizes the, often taken for granted, assumptions about individual agency in the realms of the body, disease and medicine. I show that ethics of care, as framed in contemporary Serbian postsocialist context, serves as a unique example of simultaneously coexisting ideas about …
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The Ethical Decision Making Practices of k-12 Administrators in an Urban Setting
… make can ultimately enhance or impede theculture of a school setting. When faced with situations, whether simple or arduous, the decision-making should be done in an ethical manner that brings about productive results. On a day-to-day basis, there may be situations that arise that require …
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Primates in Proximity: The Lives of Monkeys in Costa Rican Sanctuary Tourism
… have never been higher; the expansive, profitable market serves those who desire closeness to nature while leading to a mass of multispecies suffering. This thesis adds to growing scholarship about the lives of animals in the tourism industry, aiming to highlight animal interests, welfare, …
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Creating a Culture of Belonging: The Significance of Student Belonging and the Ethical Frameworks That Influence High School Leaders as They Sustain and Enhance Cultures of Belonging
… accountability measures evident in the world of public education today, it is understandable that school leaders would be influenced by the pressures associated with public expectations and dwindling fiscal resources. This study explored what public high school leaders do to evaluate and …
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A Care Ethical Theory of Political Obligation
The ethics of care – an approach in moral philosophy with feminist roots – understands care not just as a social phenomenon (as a type of action, relationship, or practice), but also as a crucial moral value. This thesis draws on the ethics of care to explore the question of political obligation: …
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