Tamara Kohn - Extending the Boundaries of Care: Medical Ethics and Caring Practices

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women

General Editors: Shirley Ardener and Jackie Waldren, for The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford

ISSN: 1068-8536

Medical Ethics and Caring Practices

Edited by Tamara KohnRosemaryMcKechnie

First published 1999 by Berg Publishers

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With the exception of the chapters by Okely and Dembour, the contributors originally presented papers at a one-day workshop on the Ethics of Care, organized by the editors and Shirley Ardener at the Centre for the Cross-Cultural Research of Women, at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. The participants at the workshop approached problems of 'care' from a number of different disciplines and experiences, and the excitement generated from such debate led to the construction of this volume. One paper from the workshop, written by Len Doyal on the universality of human needs and patients' rights, is unfortunately not included in this volume, but we would like to thank him for the contribution he made at the workshop stage. We are extremely grateful to the members of the Centre for the Cross-Cultural Research of Women who supported this venture and contributed to the workshop. Key among these is Shirley Ardener, a founder and previous director of the Centre, and a wonderful mentor and friend. We would also like to express our gratitude to Kathryn Earle and her staff at Berg Press for their patience. Finally, we would like to thank our families, who allowed us to keep things in perspective and often gave us cause to reflect on the multifaceted and multidirectional experiences of 'care'.

Tamara Kohn
Rosemary McKechnie

Vangie Bergum is a Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Co-Director of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, at the University of Alberta. She has been involved in establishing interdisciplinary courses on health care ethics at graduate and undergraduate levels. She is currently principal investigator of research entitled 'Relational Ethics. Foundation for Health Care'. Her interest in ethics developed from her work in community health, especially childbirth education. She has published A Child on her Mind (1997).

Marie-Bndicte Dembour has a degree in law (Belgium) and a doctorate in anthropology. She lectures on human rights in the Socio-Legal Centre of Sussex University. She has published several papers on the topic of human rights and also on issues related to death and dying.

Tamara Kohn is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Durham and teaches Human Sciences and Health and Human Sciences at the University's Stockton Campus (UDSC). She has conducted fieldwork in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, East Nepal, and the north-east of England. Her research has focused on identity change, interethnic marriage, and the anthropology of the body. Her interest in interdisciplinary exchange led to her involvement in this project at the Centre for the Cross-Cultural Research of Women, where she has been active since her DPhil studies in Oxford.