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Understanding care
introductory remarks
pp. 1-9
Abstract
Care is among the most important concepts in healthcare. It is not only a descriptive concept, but it also conveys a normative orientation. Approaches to the ethics of care have shown that care can indeed be understood as an overarching normative concept that integrates different normative orientations. Nonetheless, determining what constitutes good care is usually a matter of finding reasonable compromises. In healthcare settings, a typical compromise involves finding a balance between optimal care for individuals on the one hand and the institutional demands of providing care to many care receivers over long periods of time as well as the limits of what can legitimately be asked of individual care providers on the other.
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Krause Franziska, Boldt Joachim (2018) Care in healthcare: reflections on theory and practice. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 1-9
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61291-1_1
Full citation:
Krause Franziska, Boldt Joachim (2018) „Understanding care: introductory remarks“, In: F. Krause & J. Boldt (eds.), Care in healthcare, Dordrecht, Springer, 1–9.