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).

• 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.

“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)