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Care Ethics is a normative ethical theory that emphasizes the importance of interpersonal relationships and the moral significance of care and empathy in ethical decision-making. It challenges traditional ethical frameworks by prioritizing the context of relationships and the responsibilities arising from them, advocating for a more compassionate approach to moral reasoning.
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Care Ethics is a normative ethical theory that emphasizes the importance of interpersonal relationships and the moral significance of care and empathy in ethical decision-making. It challenges traditional ethical frameworks by prioritizing the context of relationships and the responsibilities arising from them, advocating for a more compassionate approach to moral reasoning.

Key research themes

1. How does care ethics reshape healthcare practices to address systemic challenges and enhance empathy?

This research theme explores how care ethics informs healthcare by addressing structural shortcomings such as nursing shortages, burnout, and mechanical treatment models. It critically examines the relationship between human caring values and organizational/administrative practices. It also investigates how care ethics proposes enhanced empathy models for health professionals that go beyond cognitive skills, fostering relational, critical, and transformative engagement with patients. The theme is important because it links ethical theories to practical improvements in clinical settings, nurse well-being, and patient outcomes.

Key finding: This article finds that conventional health systems overly emphasize economics and technological cure models at the expense of authentic caring relationships between patients and practitioners. It demonstrates that such... Read more
Key finding: This paper proposes a radical reconceptualization of empathy within care ethics that is receptive, broad, relational, mature, reflective, and transformative. It critiques mainstream empathy education for focusing too narrowly... Read more
Key finding: Through survey data and literature review, this article reveals that the majority of nurses prioritize patient welfare over their own health, leading to issues such as burnout, PTSD, moral distress, and suicide risk. It... Read more
Key finding: Based on ethnographic research, this paper identifies two competing logics of care—professional logic (based on justice and non-maleficence) and relational logic (based on interpersonal connectedness)—that coexist in nursing... Read more

2. What are the political dimensions and institutional applications of care ethics beyond individual care relations?

This theme investigates care ethics as a political and institutional paradigm that transcends micro-level care interactions to reshape governance, social justice, and collective responsibility. It examines care ethics as a radical political theory and feminist framework that challenges traditional moral theories and socio-political structures rooted in patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism. The theme encompasses proposals for embedding care at structural levels such as government departments, community organizing, and transformative political praxis, underscoring care’s role in egalitarian and abolitionist futures.

Key finding: This chapter conceptualizes care as a paradigm shift in morality rooted in embodied existence and relational ontology, emphasizing iterative acts of care that shape moral identity. Using historical examples like Le... Read more
Key finding: Using a 21st-century lens, this article frames the politics of care as a social movement and theory aimed at dismantling racial capitalism, cisheteropatriarchy, and colonialism. It challenges liberal frameworks framing care... Read more
Key finding: This conceptual paper proposes a government institution—the Department of Care—structured around feminist ethics of care principles. It argues that such a department would legitimize care as a fundamental political concern,... Read more
Key finding: This paper responds to efforts to narrowly define care ethics as a discipline and argues for its recognition as an interdisciplinary field combining philosophy, social sciences, nursing, and political theory. It highlights... Read more

3. How do care ethics conceptualize temporality and relational justice in the experience and politics of care?

This theme addresses theoretical engagements with temporality, relational justice, and embodied human capacities within care ethics. It explores the tension between care’s slow, situated, and reflective temporalities versus modern demands for efficiency and immediacy. It also elaborates on relational justice as an expansion beyond distributive paradigms, emphasizing power, respect, and social relations as core to just care. These conceptual articulations are critical in broadening care ethics beyond normative obligations to include lived experience, political structures, and the human condition.

Key finding: This article develops a relational approach to justice distinct from distributive theories by centering social status, power, and respect. It argues that justice is achieved when individuals persistently comply with... Read more
Key finding: This philosophical article identifies breathing and respiratory rhythm as fundamental to human temporality and critiques society’s ideology of frozen, perpetual present time imposed by industrial and communication... Read more
Key finding: Combining personal cancer narrative with research on male care workers in Australia, this article reveals clashes between the slow, nonlinear temporality of illness and care versus the fast, linear capitalist temporality of... Read more

All papers in Care Ethics

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Cet article vise à présenter les risques politiques, économiques et sociaux liés à l'utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle et comment les éviter. L'intelligence artificielle (IA) est une technologie transformatrice susceptible de... more
This piece reflects on the liberatory power of self-making; the Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit, Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color (QT2SBIPOC) reframing of kinship; and the act of relational co-witnessing as essential modes of "kin-ing" and... more
This review essay provides a critical analysis of Jin Li's The Self in the West and East Asia: Being or Becoming. While acknowledging the book's contributions, this essay argues that its binary framework exemplifies a broader tendency... more
El objetivo del artículo es analizar el proceso de secularización de la atención a los moribundos, tomando como eje el devenir del movimiento de los hospices y los cuidados paliativos. El artículo repasa el surgimiento del movimiento de... more
The South African (SA) higher education sector continues to battle high attrition rates. Helping students gain a sense of belonging while at university and creating an environment where students feel cared for can enhance their prospects... more
Traducción al español de Le Marché de la Vertu (Vrin, 2023) por Cristóbal Balbontín y Patricio Landaeta El consumo ético, según Estelle Ferrarese, contribuye a moldear el mundo según la lógica del intercambio. Nos empuja a llevar la... more
This article analyzes the Darién Gap transit migration phenomenon. It traces the current relevance of discussions on this phenomenon in recent academic literature, questions the lack of analysis of this issue from a bioethical... more
littéraire à travers le prisme du nouvel auteur Artificial Intelligence and the reinvention of literary creativity through the prism of the new author.
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Written for the Environmental Humanities Glossary edited by Ulrik Ekman and Daniel Irrgang at University of Copenhagen: https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/art-and-earth/environmental-humanities-glossary/
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In this article, the author interrogates the question-"Am I a scholar?"-by examining how colonial legacies and the standardized colonial concept of clock time shape who is deemed a scholar within universities and colleges across the... more
Arias, R., Lara Rallo, C., Martínez García, A. B., & García-Cuevas García, R. (2025). Assemblage Theory and the Network Turn: A Conceptual Framework for Anglophone Literature and Culture. In Montse Martínez Vázquez, Daniel Nisa Cáceres &... more
In the work of Cynthia Cruz and Fran Lock, two poets and political commentators from working class backgrounds, trauma is conceived as an inevitability for the always poor, but also a constant psychic threat for the socially mobile. Both... more
La parola care non si traduce in italiano perché questa lingua non dispone, come l’inglese, di un termine che tenga insieme un’attività e un affetto, un lavoro e una disposizione mora- le. Avremmo bisogno di due parole (la “cura” da... more
Il volume si apre con una “cartografia” filosofico-politica del concetto di vulnerabilità: Estelle Ferrarese prova così a spiegare il ruolo che la vulnerabilità assume nell’emersione del politico attraverso differenti modalità della sua... more
Research about spirituality has grown widely in the past decades and the interest in health care is also evident in Portugal. This literature review aims to identify and to characterize Portuguese theses, dissertations, and papers about... more
Depuis quelques années, nous assistons à un florilège de dispositifs vis-à-vis de l’IA : chartes, déclarations, ensemble de principes éthiques, etc. Ces structures s’inspirent directement de philosophies morales dominantes pareillement au... more
The combination of a feminist care ethics and pragmatism can be very effective in addressing the challenges posed by a fragmented and polarized society, not only in Slovakia but also globally. The author connects her individual experience... more
State-building in South Korea since liberation in 1945 has seen some successes. However, from a care perspective—considering that women and families bear the primary burden of care responsibilities, the discrimination and disadvantages... more
Performative care for victims of gender-based violence in Tanzania through established socio-cultural gendered policies that reinforce the disproportionate care labor that women activists carry. Women's rights activists historically... more
The article specifies the human being based on the respiratory cycle, referring to the etymology of the word "spirit". This word shares its root with the French word respiration ("breathing") as well as the verb "to inspire," suggesting... more
This article juxtaposes different and conflicting temporalities as configured in the context of care and caring. Weaving together (1) an autobiographical narrative in which I share parts of my own breast cancer journey with (2) research... more
Through a critical auto-ethnographic account of miscarriage and grief, I explore what it means to inherit Islam as a tradition through care-based modes of knowing. Through Muslim-feminist theorizing, I blend Quranic narratives of care... more
Black and Latina female educators have for centuries prepared children of color to resist dehumanization, claim full citizenship, and transform oppression through culturally specific Critical Feminist Ethics of Care. In 2018, I detailed a... more
Introduction Caring and Time by Muarice Hamington
The Korean pop supergroup BTS is well-known for breaking records, winning awards, and garnering the dedication of a massive global fandom known as ARMY. Research on BTS and the fandom is emerging, articulating a need for a deeper... more
Review by Elizabeth Motley of Disability Works by Patrick McKelvey, Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre by Tony McCaffrey and Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters by Petra Kuppers
Filial piety is a central virtue of Confucian ethics and widely viewed as an important part of what it means to be(come) Chinese. Confucian scholars emphasize the cultivation of filial piety (love and respect for parents) while assuming... more
This study aims at investigating Sally Rooney's short story Mr Salary (2019). The complexities around human relationships have always interested Rooney, who asserted that "there is a shared knowledge that relationship forms of the past... more
Feminist theories of care ethics point out that vulnerability and dependence are an inherent part of caring relationships, while also noting that these aspects and the sense of inequality that stems from them invariably enable the abuse... more
Analyse des Falls: «Fürsorgepflicht gegenüber Angehörigen?» aus Gitlin, L. N. & Hodgson, N. A. (2016). Who Should Assess the Needs of and Care for a Dementia Patient’s Caregiver? AMA Journal of Ethics, 18(12), 1171-1181.
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Care has become a trend in the art field, but much of the recent curatorial focus seems to be limited to symbolic gestures through exhibitions and public programming. These efforts, however, have led to few (infra)structural changes. The... more
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L'éminente préoccupation de sécurité en matière d'intelligence artificielle est à la fois incontournable et complexe. Ainsi que l’a justement relevé B. Warusfel, « la technologie génère sa propre insécurité ». À travers ses phases... more
Artificial intelligence, through its ubiquitous algorithms, recommends, authorizes, forbids, empowers, and dictates, much like law does. As such, it introduces a new type of sui generis governance, which some refer to as "algorithmic... more
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Despite extensive scholarly attention, the meaning of 'gender' remains contested. This dissertation advances a phenomenological Thomistic account, positing gender as the self-aware relationship between the phenomenal 'I' and its living... more
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