Ethics of care and HIV: a case for rural women in India |
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Authors: | Chakraborti Chhanda |
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Institution: | Associate Professor, Philosophy, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. chhanda@iitkgp.ac.in |
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Abstract: | Recent literature shows that ethics of care can be used as a theoretical basis to add a new, important dimension to social issues. This paper argues for a similar extension of the theoretical support from ethics of care to an area in bioethics. Specifically, it contends that a justification based ethics of care can be constructed to argue for a moral obligation to give some priority in the HIV-related initiatives to one of most vulnerable groups; namely, the rural women in India. In an epidemic situation this care-based approach has certain advantages as a moral justification over the usual traditional approaches. |
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Keywords: | ethics of care HIV/AIDS societal interpretation of ethics of care moral obligation HIV in India |
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