Care in Healthcare: Reflections on Theory and Practice

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This 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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Understanding Care: Introductory Remarks (Franziska Krause, Joachim Boldt)....Pages 1-9 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 Forgotten Approaches to Care: The Human Being as Neighbour in the German-Jewish Tradition of the Nineteenth Century (Elisabeth Conradi)....Pages 13-35 Nursing as Accommodated Care: A Contribution to the Phenomenology of Care. Appeal, Concern, Volition, Practice (Björn Freter)....Pages 37-49 Fundamentals of an Ethics of Care (Giovanni Maio)....Pages 51-63 The Interdependence of Care and Autonomy (Joachim Boldt)....Pages 65-86 Caring Relationships: Commercial Surrogacy and the Ethical Relevance of the Other (Franziska Krause)....Pages 87-107 Front Matter ....Pages 109-109 Sociomaterial Will-Work: Aligning Daily Wanting in Dutch Dementia Care (Annelieke Driessen)....Pages 111-133 The Dementia Village: Between Community and Society (Tobias Haeusermann)....Pages 135-167 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)....Pages 169-190 Witnessing as an Embodied Practice in German Midwifery Care (Annekatrin Skeide)....Pages 191-209 Tensions in Diabetes Care Practice: Ethical Challenges with a Focus on Nurses in a Home-Based Care Team (Pei-Yi Liu, Helen Kohlen)....Pages 211-235 Caring About Care in the Hospital Arena and Nurses’ Voices in Hospital Ethics Committees: Three Decades of Experiences (Helen Kohlen)....Pages 237-263 Towards a Three-Dimensional Perspective of Space for Humanizing Hospital Care (Hanneke van der Meide)....Pages 265-281 Conclusion: Asking the Right Questions (Joachim Boldt, Annelieke Driessen, Björn Freter, Tobias Haeusermann, Franziska Krause, Pei-Yi Liu et al.)....Pages 283-291 Back Matter ....Pages 293-298