The Ethics of Care

Alan Blum is Executive Director of the Culture of Cities Centre and Senior Professor of Sociology and Communication and Culture at York University, Canada. He is the author of The Grey Zone in Health and Illness, Theorizing and The Imaginative Structure of the City, and co-author of On the Beginning of Social Inquiry and Self-Reflection in the Arts and Sciences. Stuart J. Murray is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric & Ethics in the Department of English Language & Literature and the Department of Health Sciences at Carleton University, Canada. He is co-editor of Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare: Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics.

Introduction: The Dialectic of Care

Part 1: Institutional Contraints, Consent and End-of-life

1. Informed Consent and the Social Regulation of Caregiver Involvement in End-of-life Care

2. Judgement, Care and Informed Consent

3. End-of-life Conflicts, the Law and Arendt's Political Thinking

Part 2: Biomedicine, Social Services and Reparation in the Postcolony

4. The Time of a Life: Ethics and Care in the Case of a Young First Nations Girl

5. Community Development Amongst Urban Aboriginals: Case Study of the Healing of the Seven Generations Canoe Project

6. Postcolonial Negotiations: Care, Aboriginal Rights, and the Challenge of Democracy

Part 3: Communication, Ethical Collisions and the Realities of Care

7. End-of-life as a Symbolic Order: Age in an Era of Mechanical Reproduction

8. Good Patient-Bad Patient: The Ethical Imaginary of Cancer

9. The Clinical Epistemology of Ludwig Binswanger (1881-1966): Psychiatry as a Science of the Singular

10. Critique of Solution-focused Brief Therapy

11. Rethinking the Concept of Care

Afterword: Care, Giving: An Ethical Critique