Nursing Ethics: Feminist Perspectives

Helen Kohlen is Professor of Care Policy and Ethics at the Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar, Germany and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of Conflicts of Care: Hospital Ethics Committees in the USA and Germany and co-editor of Moral Boundaries Redrawn: The Significance of Joan Tronto’s Argument for Political Theory, Professional Ethics, and Care as Practice (with Gert Olthuis, and Jorma Heier).Joan McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Ireland, and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. She is the co-author of Nursing Ethics: Irish Cases and Concerns (with Dolores Dooley) and End-of-Life Care: Ethics and Law (with Mary Donnelly, Dolores Dooley, Louise Campbell, and David Smith).

“All ten book chapters are written by experienced researchers and lecturers in the field of medical, healthcare and/or feminist ethics, philosophy, care policy and/or law, nursing, etc. … Nursing Ethics: Feminist Perspectives is a much welcomed book and should be read by students, academics, professionals, and the broader public to gain a holistic view and deeper understanding of nursing and all its ethical dimensions.” (Tijs Vandemeulebroucke, Ethik in der Medizin, Vol. 33, 2021)

• Foreword.- Introduction.- I. Nursing Ethics and feminist theoretical challenges.- Chapter 1. The influence of the social location of nurses-as-women on the early development of nursing ethics.- Chapter 2. An evolution of feminist thought in nursing ethics.- Chapter 3. Piecing together a puzzle: Feminist materialist philosophy and nursing ethics.- Chapter 4. Bearing witness and testimony in nursing: An ethical-political practice.- Chapter 5. Intercultural perspectives.- Interlude: Joan Tronto on care ethics and nursing ethics: an interview.- II. Nursing ethics in organisation, clinical practice, and research through a feminist lens.- Chapter 6. Organisation ethics, relational leadership and nursing.- Chapter 7. Hospital Ethics Committees and the dismissal of nursing ethical concerns: A feminist perspective.- Chapter 8. Feminist reflections on home, digital health technologies and ethics.- Chapter 9. Conscience, conscientious objection and commitment: midwives, nurses and abortion care.- Chapter 10. Feminist ethics in nursing research.