Nel Noddings Caring

Introduction

In recent year, philosophers and bioethicists have paid significant attention towards the concept of care. There is a great number of works produced on different questions. For instance, whether there is a uniquely female approach to ethics, whether ethics should be partial or impartial , and whether justice must function as a supplement to care . Despite these valuable and extensive works, there are some important distinctions left with or without discussion. Therefore, this paper picks up the effort to clarify the concepts of caring in physician-patient relationship. Moreover, the paper suggests that different kinds of care deserve different moral evaluation. Therefore, the author attempts to fulfill the discussion by espousing …show more content…
She further said, “to care is to be in a burdened mental state, one of anxiety, fear, or solicitude about something or someone”. Alternatively, one cares for something or someone if one has a regard for or inclination toward that something or someone. To care may equal to be charged with protection, welfare, or maintenance of something or someone. In Noddings’ view, these definitions of care represent different use. The elements of each of them are all involved in caring. She categorized into three senses of caring. The first one is equating “care” with “burden”. One has cares in certain matters personally, professionally, or publicly if one has burdens or worries. The second sense of care is that one care for someone if one feels a stir of desire or inclination towards them. Relatively, one care for someone if one has regard for his views and interests. In a third sense, one has the care of an elderly relative if one is charged with the responsibility for his physical welfare. Unlike Milton Mayeroff, whose On Caring relation is described through the view of one-caring, Noddings draws our attention to “judge caring from the outside, as a third persons” because it is way easier to see that the elements of caring are located in the relation between the one-caring and the …show more content…
One interpretation from Howard Curzer suggested that “caring means to ‘have a liking for’ which involve a kind of emotional attachment”. In such regard, viewing caring for as having a like for would avoid the unrealistic expectation placed upon healthcare professionals, without having them develops engrossment with their patients. Notwithstanding, caring as emotional attachment leads to bias, burnout, injustice and insufficiency. It is said that healthcare professionals would favor one patient to another; thus bias and likely resulting in treating all patients unequally. It leads to burnout because healthcare professional may share the sorrow the patient’s experience. Such attempts to experience the suffering might make them feel guilty of unable to treat all patients equally. Lastly, it leads to injustice because healthcare professional will place the interests of their patients above all others. Although Cruzer presented both the plus and minus regarding his term of care, there is an important fact to look upon. That is there are chances where healthcare professionals do not care for (some) patients. To the ill patients, it creates distress to interact with healthcare professionals who do not demonstrate emotional

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