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An Economy Of Care: George Eliot's Middlemarch And Feminist Care Ethics, Madison V. Newman
An Economy Of Care: George Eliot's Middlemarch And Feminist Care Ethics, Madison V. Newman
Masters Theses
This thesis assesses the centrality of care relationships in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and, by doing so, seeks to provide a nuanced understanding of individual and collective morality. Using the ethics of care as a methodological framework to acknowledge the importance of care acts and successful care relations – especially those complicated by the presence of dichotomized socioeconomic hierarchies – will allow readers to engage more fully with this text, its author, her relations, her characters, and the community of readers; reading Eliot’s work from this lens will allow us to validate every interaction, every thread of connectedness, and every act …
Caring For Fat Patients: Bioethical Considerations Surrounding The Duty Of Care, Anne Merrill
Caring For Fat Patients: Bioethical Considerations Surrounding The Duty Of Care, Anne Merrill
Masters Theses
Healthcare providers’ (HCP) duty of care explains what HCPs owe to all their patients, but this thesis will focus on how the duty of care informs the treatment of fat patients. Currently, the foundation of the duty of care is rooted in a set of principles enumerated by the American Medical Association. This current conception of the duty of care fails to provide basic protections against harm to fat individuals, primarily because it is unable to prevent the negative attitudes HCPs have about fat people from permeating healthcare. The negative attitudes HCPs have about fat patients stem from a societal …