Citation

Berghs M, Dierckx de Casterlé B, Gastmans C. J. Med. Ethics 2006; 32(2): 117-122.

Affiliation

Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. Chris.Gastmans@med.kuleuven.be

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/jme.2004.011171

PMID

16446419

PMCID

PMC2563330

Abstract

This paper uses Margaret Urban Walker's "expressive collaborative" method of moral inquiry to examine and illustrate the morality of nurses in Great Britain from around 1860 to 1915, as well as nursing complicity in one of the first eugenic policies. The authors aim to focus on how context shapes and limits morality and agency in nurses and contributes to a better understanding of debates in nursing ethics both in the past and present.

Language: en