This open access book examines the concept of care and care practices in healthcare from the interdisciplinary perspectives of continental philosophy, care ethics, the social sciences, and anthropology. Areas addressed include dementia care, midwifery, diabetes care, psychiatry, and reproductive medicine. Special attention is paid to ambivalences and tensions within both the concept of care and care practices. Contributions in the first section of the book explore phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches to care and reveal historical precursors to care ethics. Empirical case studies and reflections on care in institutionalised and standardised settings form the second section of the book. The concluding chapter, jointly written by many of the contributors, points at recurring challenges of understanding and practicing care that open up the field for further research and discussion. This collection will be of great value to scholars and practitioners of medicine, ethics, philosophy, social science and history.

Contents

• Acknowledgement
  Franziska Krause and Joachim Boldt.
• Understanding Care: Introductory Remarks
  Franziska Krause and Joachim Boldt.
  Published online: July 20, 2017.
  • Defining Care
  • Understanding Care
  • References
• Framing Care
  • Forgotten Approaches to Care: The Human Being as Neighbour in the German-Jewish Tradition of the Nineteenth Century
    Elisabeth Conradi.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Jewish Ethics in Germany
    • Helping Those Nearby
    • Political Practice and Ethical Belief
    • References
  • Nursing as Accommodated Care: A Contribution to the Phenomenology of Care. Appeal, Concern, Volition, Practice
    Björn Freter.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Introduction
    • The General Phenomenology of Care
    • Appeal in the Nursing Context
    • Normative Uncertainties
    • Concern, Volition and Practice in the Nursing Context
    • References
  • Fundamentals of an Ethics of Care
    Giovanni Maio.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Care: Connecting Virtue and Practice
    • Care According to Paul Ricœur
    • Systematics of the Core Elements of an Ethics of Care
    • Limits of Care Ethics
    • Conclusions
    • References
  • The Interdependence of Care and Autonomy
    Joachim Boldt.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Introduction
    • A Conventional Limit to Autonomy in Medicine
    • The Thrust of the Autonomy Principle
    • Assessing Reasons for Doing What One Wants to Do to Oneself
    • No Conception of a Shared Good
    • The Autonomy Dilemma
    • Kant on Autonomy
    • Hermeneutic Autonomy
    • Enabling Autonomy
    • Care in Medical Ethics
    • The Care Dilemma
    • Conclusion
    • References
  • Caring Relationships: Commercial Surrogacy and the Ethical Relevance of the Other
    Franziska Krause.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Surrogacy and Ethics
    • Levinas and Ethics
    • Levinas and Surrogacy
    • Conclusion
    • References
• Situated Care
  • Sociomaterial Will-Work: Aligning Daily Wanting in Dutch Dementia Care
    Annelieke Driessen.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • ‘Daily Wanting’ in Dementia Care
    • Work on Wanting: Sociomaterial Will-Work
    • Conclusion
    • References
  • The Dementia Village: Between Community and Society
    Tobias Haeusermann.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Introduction
    • The German Village
    • Coming Home
    • The Brickyard Mansion
    • The Lakeside Mansion
    • The Ridingyard Mansion
    • The Hastebach Mansion
    • Discussion
    • Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Community and Society)
    • Conclusion
    • References
  • Regulation as an Obstacle to Care? A Care-Ethical Evaluation of the Regulation on the Use of Seclusion Cells in Psychiatric Care in Flanders (Belgium)
    Tim Opgenhaffen.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Introduction
    • Depersonalizing Regulation?
    • Towards a Supporting Role for Regulation
    • Conclusion
    • References
  • Witnessing as an Embodied Practice in German Midwifery Care
    Annekatrin Skeide.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Introduction: Witnessing in Midwifery Care
    • Juridical, Religious, Philosophical and Sociological Facets of Witnessing Applied to Midwifery Care
    • Empirical Findings
    • Conclusion: Witnessing Configurations in Midwifery Care
    • References
  • Tensions in Diabetes Care Practice: Ethical Challenges with a Focus on Nurses in a Home-Based Care Team
    Pei-Yi Liu and Helen Kohlen.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Introduction
    • Methods and Materials
    • Findings
    • Discussion
    • Conclusion
    • References
  • Caring About Care in the Hospital Arena and Nurses’ Voices in Hospital Ethics Committees: Three Decades of Experiences
    Helen Kohlen.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Introduction
    • Nurses’ Ethical Concerns in Hospital Care
    • Nurses’ Membership, Voice and Participation in Hospital Ethics Committees
    • Voices of Care in a German Hospital Ethics Committee: A Petit Ethical Problem
    • Conclusion
    • References
  • Towards a Three-Dimensional Perspective of Space for Humanizing Hospital Care
    Hanneke van der Meide.
    Published online: July 20, 2017.
    • Introduction
    • Phenomenology and Lived Space
    • Space as an Active and Social Process
    • Conclusion
    • References
• Conclusion: Asking the Right Questions
  Joachim Boldt, Annelieke Driessen, Björn Freter, Tobias Haeusermann, Franziska Krause, Pei-Yi Liu, Tim Opgenhaffen, and Annekatrin Skeide.
  Published online: July 20, 2017.
  • Caring, Influencing, and Coercing
  • Care, Inclusion, and Exclusion
  • Care, Passivity, and Invisibility
  • Care, Regulation, Standardisation, and Fragmentation
  • Care, Language, and Ambiguity
  • Concluding Remarks