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What Is Health Care Ethics? Health care ethics (a/k/a medical ethics or bioethics), at its simplest, is a set of moral principles, beliefs and values that guide us in making choices about medical care. At the core of health care ethics is our sense of right and wrong and our beliefs about rights we possess and duties we owe others. Thinking carefully about the ethical aspects of health care decisions helps us make choices that are right, good, fair and just.
Furthermore, care ethics arose out of womenâs experience and feminist theory, but it is not a âwomanâs morality.â Although sometimes characterized as such, care ethics does not reinforce gender essentialism. Today, feminist and nonfeminist theorists have made care ethics into a robust field of research and publication. This chapter introduces care ethics and discusses its place and potential in business ethics.