Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Understanding Care: Introductory Remarks -- Defining Care -- Understanding Care -- Framing Care -- Situated Care -- References -- Framing Care -- Forgotten Approaches to Care: The Human Being as Neighbour in the German-Jewish Tradition of the Nineteenth Century -- Jewish Ethics in Germany -- Helping Those Nearby -- Political Practice and Ethical Belief -- References -- Nursing as Accommodated Care: A Contribution to the Phenomenology of Care. Appeal, Concern, Volition, Practice -- Introduction -- The General Phenomenology of Care -- Appeal in the Nursing Context -- Normative Uncertainties -- Concern, Volition and Practice in the Nursing Context -- References -- The English text of the Gospel according to Luke is quoted from: -- The Greek and Latin texts from the Gospel according to Luke are quoted from: -- Fundamentals of an Ethics of Care -- Care: Connecting Virtue and Practice -- Care According to Paul Ric�ur -- Systematics of the Core Elements of an Ethics of Care -- Anthropology of Dependence -- Being in Relationships -- Being Situation-Oriented -- Responsiveness -- Accepting the Indefinable -- Giving Preference to Emotional Knowledge -- Giving Preference to Space for Growth -- Limits of Care Ethics -- Conclusions -- References -- The Interdependence of Care and Autonomy -- Introduction -- A Conventional Limit to Autonomy in Medicine -- The Thrust of the Autonomy Principle -- Assessing Reasons for Doing What One Wants to Do to Oneself -- No Conception of a Shared Good -- The Autonomy Dilemma -- Kant on Autonomy -- Hermeneutic Autonomy -- Enabling Autonomy -- Care in Medical Ethics -- The Care Dilemma -- Conclusion -- References -- Caring Relationships: Commercial Surrogacy and the Ethical Relevance of the Other -- Surrogacy and Ethics -- Levinas and Ethics.

Levinas and the Ethics of Care: The Mother-Child Relationship -- Levinas' Concept of Responsibility -- Levinas and the Concept of Relational Autonomy -- Levinas and Surrogacy -- Conclusion -- References -- Situated Care -- Sociomaterial Will-Work: Aligning Daily Wanting in Dutch Dementia Care -- 'Daily Wanting' in Dementia Care -- Work on Wanting: Sociomaterial Will-Work -- Sculpting Moods and Emotions -- Managing Attention -- Creative Negotiation Involving Time and Materialities -- Conclusion -- References -- The Dementia Village: Between Community and Society -- Introduction -- The German Village -- Coming Home -- The Brickyard Mansion -- The Lakeside Mansion -- The Ridingyard Mansion -- The Hastebach Mansion -- Discussion -- Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Community and Society) -- Conclusion -- References -- 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) -- Introduction -- Depersonalizing Regulation? -- Deprivation of Personal Belongings ("Deprivation of Clothing") -- Alienation ("Reducing the Victims to Their Animal-Like Basic Needs") -- Reduction to Procedure ("Loss of Name") -- Normalization of Seclusion ("Large Scale") -- Avoidance of Direct Communication ("Avoidance of Direct Communication") -- Towards a Supporting Role for Regulation -- Depersonalization Versus Care -- Immanent Care, Transcendent Regulation -- An Appeal to Regulation -- An Appeal to Care -- Conclusion -- References -- Witnessing as an Embodied Practice in German Midwifery Care -- Introduction: Witnessing in Midwifery Care -- Juridical, Religious, Philosophical and Sociological Facets of Witnessing Applied to Midwifery Care -- Empirical Findings -- Witnessing as a Contractual Being-With -- Witnessing as a Reassuring Being-With -- Eye-Witnessing as an Alienating Being-With.

Touching as a Witnessing Strategy -- Trust as a Strategy of Being Witnessed -- Technological Testifying -- Conclusion: Witnessing Configurations in Midwifery Care -- References -- Tensions in Diabetes Care Practice: Ethical Challenges with a Focus on Nurses in a Home-Based Care Team -- Introduction -- Methods and Materials -- Findings -- Patients Versus Customers -- An Ongoing Process Versus Finding an End by Acceptance -- Authority Versus Responsibility -- Discussion7 -- Can Care Receivers Be Both "Customers" and "Patients"? -- Can "Finding an End" Be Acceptable in an Ongoing Care Process? -- Can Care Responsibility Play Out Within Trust-­Relationships Without Authority? -- Can Professional Identity and Care Competencies Support Trust-Relationships? -- Conclusion -- References -- Caring About Care in the Hospital Arena and Nurses' Voices in Hospital Ethics Committees: Three Decades of Experiences -- Introduction -- Nurses' Ethical Concerns in Hospital Care -- Conflicts and Invisibilities -- Moral Distress, Missed Connectedness and Fragmentation of Care -- Knowing the Case Versus Knowing the Patient and the Person -- Nurses' Membership, Voice and Participation in Hospital Ethics Committees -- Nursing Ethics Committees -- Voices of Care in a German Hospital Ethics Committee: A Petit Ethical Problem -- Interpretation -- Conclusion -- References -- Towards a Three-Dimensional Perspective of Space for Humanizing Hospital Care -- Introduction -- Phenomenology and Lived Space -- Lifeworld -- Lived Space as an Existential of the Lifeworld -- Consideration -- Space as an Active and Social Process -- Care as a Practice -- Space as a Social Product -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion: Asking the Right Questions -- Caring, Influencing, and Coercing -- Care, Inclusion, and Exclusion -- Care, Passivity, and Invisibility.

Care, Regulation, Standardisation, and Fragmentation -- Care, Language, and Ambiguity -- Concluding Remarks -- Index.

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