Care ethics is concerned with the roles of Emotional Response and Mutual independence which are significant to our moral lives. Most people in relationships are dependent, frail, ill or vulnerable and their response to admirable morals refers to their attentiveness to demands but not respect for entitlements. People with moral deficiency are as if they are influenced by rule-governed responsibilities with no appropriate concerned feelings like worry of a severing friend or relative (Depender, 1990, 168). The concern to other people’s needs and reasonable awareness to their current situations is derived from a person’s emotions rather than reason. These emotions therefore seem to possess ‘cognitive role’ that gives people a chance to view a situation which someone arguing from a ‘justice point of view’ may not to see. Sometimes the care ethics confronts circumstances that demands of impartiality contradicts acting partiality from care. Thus, there is a need to look at the social view of care. Emotional response and sensitivity to certain circumstances gives significant guides to morally acceptable feedbacks. In most cases, care ethics likes utilizing conflict resolution and mediation of disputes procedures in solving ethical conflicts (Sevenhuijsen, 1998, 100).
Care ethics depicts a Moral agent as a self who is attached to links of other people relations which shapes the self-conception of a care agent. These relations help the care 2 Surname agent to define herself in regard to what she is involved in as well as her view of the world, acting like a lens that through which she gets to view and comprehend things that are going on in her life. This kind of focus on her relationship boosts the care’s moral orientation. The care agent tries to develop a character that fosters her relations in caring in a manner in which she interacts and relates with other people. In regard to this, the fundamental moral commitments of care such as quick response to vulnerability or need, avoiding inflicting harm as well as maintaining caring relations that she exchanges with others becomes her goals (Held, 2006, 254). The care agent must deal with other people with a caring altitude; the willingness to get involved in relation with others as well as concern with and interest in the well- being of the people that she is in relation to. These are elaborated via attentiveness to other people’s specific requirements and the unique situations in their lives and through compassion expression especially when tackled with a big need on the other’s part. The care altitude creates the difference between self and the altitudes, through which the other’s goodness is possessed by the own good of the self. Meanwhile the end of the other does not become part of the self but becomes alive to the self in a different manner as well as adapting a different value. Although the acts of caring can done without a caring attitude, their value can be increased if they are done together with this altitudes.
For instance, a nurse who makes a patient more comfortable out of the patient’s well-being concern creates an extra concern for the patient as it not only concerns the physical needs of the patient but also their emotional need. In addition to altitude, care exhibits itself through distinctive way of thinking morally which comes in form of contextual, narrative and particularistic. It elaborates that 3 Surname the right response to be administered to this kind of individuals should be special in their own ways. Through care ethics, partiality is portrayed as a moral good which sa ys thatour responsibilities are supposed to be strengthening toward the people whom we feel closer to. Care ethics believes in the significance of communicating as a way of gaining the fundamental moral commitments. The importance of communication is that it helps in sharing of experience that initiates caring relations as well as establishing mutual trust, which is the bedrock of good caring relations.
Through communication, care agents becomes better informed as far as the other’s needs are concerned hence enhancing the chances of her getting involved in appropriate caring. It is also important because through it, possible crises can be dissolved as well as impacting creative, compromising solutions to moral problems (Sorell, 1998, 67). The fundamental commitment of morals of ethics of care are believed to be expanding the purpose of the medical practice which encompasses the morals to do no harm and respond to the demands as well as vulnerability of the unhealthy people through restoring their health conditions and good functioning. Care ethics extends the purpose of medicine in a way that it also involves the need to conserve relation between providers of health care and the recipients.
The most significant relation is nestled in links of the other relations which must be sustained if at all this primary relation is to survive. Thus, through care ethics the patient would be seen as a self embedded and engaged in networks of relations with other people who has health and well being which depends on proper working of these relations but not just as a person who is seeking medical attention. The relationship of the care ethic elaborates 4 Surname that the practitioner of health care is involved in an indirect investment and moral responsibility in seeing to it that the caring relations of the sick person perform well in addition to being in a capacity to give the patient the kind of emotional and sustenance needs (Have, 2002, p. 50).
The care ethics also focuses on the issue of who is supposed to offer the desired care to the sick person. In most cases this responsibility has been left in the hands of nurses. But this is questioned in care ethics as to whether this obligation should be left to the nurses only or it should involve the medical team as a whole. This also extents to the care that is required once the patient has gone home. Care ethics ensures that the care burdens does not disproportionately fall on anybody, since this could lead to burnout of the care hence causing harm to the caregiver and stressing the caring relations network. In spite of these significant contributions to the people’s comprehending of medicine, care ethics has got its limitations. As it has been developed, care ethics is not believed to give the conceptual facilities for measuring the extend to which one should balance institutional as well as individual responsibilities to care.
It claims that partiality should be having strength towards the person to whom the care giver feels stronger. In addition to this the care ethics also tends to undermine the patient autonomy concern by assuming that the caregiver by lending her services understands to best interest of the patient. Despite these challenges, care ethics fundamental moral commitments are significant to the daily work of medical practitioners as well as for giving framework for studying and examining trend in modern medicine (Have, 2002, 64). 5 Surname Work Cited Depender William.
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