What about the Family?

Practices of Responsibility in Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-062488-0
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

Health and social care decisions, and how they impact a family, are often viewed from the perspective of the individual family member making them--for example, the role of the parent in surrogacy questions, the care of the elderly, or decisions that involve fetuses or organ donations. What About the Family? represents a concerted, collaborative effort to depart from this practice--it rather shows that the family unit as a whole is intrinsic and inseparable from patient's ethical decisions. This deeper level of thinking about families and health care poses an entirely new set of difficult questions. Which family members are relevant in influencing a patient? What is a family, in the first place? What duties does a family have to its own members? What makes an ethics of families distinctive from health care ethics, an ethic of care or feminist ethics is that it theorizes relationships characterized by ongoing intimacy and partiality among people who are not interchangeable, and remains centered on the practices of responsibility arising from these relationships.

What About the Family? edited by bioethicists Hilde Lindemann, Marian Verkerk, and Janice McLaughlin, represents an interdisciplinary effort, drawing, among other resources, on its authors' backgrounds in sociology, nursing, philosophy, bioethics, and the medical sciences. Contributors begin from the assumption that any ethical examination of the significance of family ties to health and social care will benefit from a dialogue with the debates about family occuring in these other disciplinary areas, and examine why families matter, how families are recognized, how families negotiate responsibilities, how families can participate in treatment decision making, and how justice operates in families.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindemann, Hilde

McLaughlin, Janice

Verkerk, Marian A.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Arzt-Patient-Beziehung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Hilde Lindemann, Janice McLaughlin, and Marian Verkerk

- Chapter 1: Why Families Matter, Hilde Lindemann

- Case Study: Lesbian Parents' Search for "The Right Way" to Disclose Donor Conception to Their Children, Veerle Prevost

- Chapter 2: Recognizing Family, Janice McLaughlin

- Case Study: The Family Imperative in Genetic Testing, Lorraine Cowley

- Case Study: What Counts as a Family-And Who Is to Decide? Margareta Hydén

- Chapter 3: Negotiating Responsibilities, Marian A. Verkerk

- Case Study: Paternal Responsibility for Children and Pediatric Hospital Policies in Romania, Daniela Cuta

- Case Study: Family Care-Giving as a Problematic Category, Jacqueline Chin

- Chapter 4: Health Care Decisions, Ulrik Kihlbom and Christian Munthe

- Case Study: Family-Centeredness as Resource and Complication in Outpatient Care with Weak Adherence, Using Adolescent Diabetes Care as a Case in Point, Andre Herlitz and Christian Munthe

- Case Study: Annie's Problem, Jackie Leach Scully

- Chapter 5: Justice, Intimacy, and Autonomy

- Jamie Lindemann Nelson and Simon Woods

- Case Study: Young Carers, Gideon Calder

- Case Study: Autism, Family Life, and Epistemic Injustice: A Case Study, Richard Ashcroft

Über Autor(innen)

Hilde Lindemann is Emerita Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. A Fellow of the Hastings Center and a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, her ongoing research interests are in feminist bioethics, feminist ethics, the ethics of families, and the social construction of persons and their identities. She is the former editor of The Hastings Center Report as well as of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

Marian Verkerk is Full Professor Ethics of Care at the University Medical Centre of Groningen (UMCG) and the University of Groningen. She is interested in exploring how questions of morality and ethics are embedded in relational perspectives and experiences of care. She was previously program leader of an international research consortium on Ethics of Families. Since 2017 she has served as project leader on Patient Engagement at the UMCG.

Janice McLaughlin is Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University. Her research interests focus on childhood disability and the examination of its surrounding social and institutional worlds, including family. Though a sociologist, she draws from associated disciplines such as anthropology and bioethics, with a strong emphasis on empirical qualitative research. Her most recent book (with Edmund Coleman-Fountain and Emma Clavering) is Disabled Childhoods: Monitoring Differences and Emerging Identities (Routledge, 2018).