The nine symptoms that were indicated in the DSM IV as typical of borderline personality disorder say a lot about the current state of society. At the exhibition Borderline Times the focus shifts from the individual to the collective.
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Work on Ethics of Care in Japan
Professor Tetsu Harayama, Tokyo University, on care ethics in Japan.
September 2015
Call for Papers for Conference “Relation, Vulnerability, Love”
From the 15th till the 17th of September 2016 research group Anthropos (Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven) will organize a conference on the following theme: Relation, Vulnerability, Love.
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Launch of Care Ethical Research Consortium
Prof. Joan Tronto, prominent care ethicist, and care ethical scholar Prof. Carlo Leget have announced their joint initiative to start an international Care Ethical Research Consortium. The invitation is open to care ethical scholars from all over the world to participate in this consortium. Continue reading Launch of Care Ethical Research Consortium
Sacrifice: A care-ethical reappraisal
In Sacrifice: A care-ethical reappraisal of sacrifice and self-sacrifice (2015), Inge van Nistelrooij re-examens a rejected aspect of caregiving in late-modernity: caregiving entails sacrifices even to the extent of sacrificing the self. Continue reading Sacrifice: A care-ethical reappraisal
What’s in a name?
A care ethics conference experience
At the 1st International Care Ethics (ICE) Observatory, fused with the 16th Nursing Ethics Conference, we, as care ethical scholars, found ourselves being caught in our own world view. Fully endorsing the care ethical lense through which we look, think and teach, we had interpreted the name of this conference automatically as if this would be a conference about Care Ethics (as in: the Ethics of Care). Continue reading What’s in a name?