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Fry's Concept Of Care In Nursing Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Howard J. Curzer
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Abstract

Sara T. Fry maintains that care is a central concept for nursing ethics. This requires, among other things, that care is a virtue rather than a mode of being. But if care is a central virtue of ethics and medical ethics then the claim that care is a central concept for nursing ethics is trivial. Otherwise, it is implausible.

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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993, pp. 174 - 183
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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