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A Comment on Fry's “The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Jeannine Ross Boyer  and
James Lindemann Nelson
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Abstract

Our response to Sara Fry's paper focuses on the difficulty of understanding her insistence on the fundamental character of caring in a theory of nursing ethics. We discuss a number of problems her text throws in the way of making sense of this idea, and outline our own proposal for how caring's role may be reasonably understood: not as an alternative object of value, competing with autonomy or patient good, but rather as an alternative way of responding toward that which is of value.

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Hypatia , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , Fall 1990 , pp. 153 - 158
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Copyright © 1990 by Hypatia, Inc.

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