Bradshaw A
National Institute for Nursing, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.
J Med Ethics. 1996 Feb;22(1):8-15. doi: 10.1136/jme.22.1.8.
This paper is a response to Peter Allmark's thesis that 'there can be no "caring" ethics'. It argues that the current preoccupation in nursing to define an ethics of care is a direct result of breaking nursing tradition. Subsequent attempts to find a moral basis for care, whether from subjective experimental perspectives such as described by Noddings, or from rational and detached approaches derived from Kant, are inevitably flawed. Writers may still implicitly presuppose a concept of care drawn from the Judaeo-Christian tradition but without explicit recourse to its moral basis nursing is left rudderless and potentially without purpose. The very concept of 'care' cut off from its roots becomes a meaningless term without either normative or descriptive content.
本文是对彼得·奥尔马克“不可能有‘关怀’伦理”这一论点的回应。文章认为，当前护理领域专注于界定关怀伦理是打破护理传统的直接结果。随后为关怀寻找道德基础的尝试，无论是从像诺丁斯所描述的主观经验视角，还是从源自康德的理性且超然的方法，都不可避免地存在缺陷。作者们可能仍然隐含地预设了一个源自犹太 - 基督教传统的关怀概念，但如果没有明确诉诸其道德基础，护理就会变得没有方向，甚至可能没有目标。脱离其根源的“关怀”这一概念本身就变成了一个没有规范或描述性内容的无意义术语。
