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Justice, Care, and Questionable Dichotomies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Jean P. Rumsey
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Abstract

Throughout the development of an “ethic of care” different from an “ethic of justice,” the relationship between the two has been problematic. Are they theories between which one must choose? Are they complementary? Are they domain-specific? In support of my view that neither is adequate by itself, I here examine the private domain of care of the dying by intimates, and find there important issues both of care and of justice.

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Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Winter 1997 , pp. 99 - 113
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Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.

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