Category: News

  • Late modern uncertainty and beyond demarcation

    Late modern uncertainty and beyond demarcation

    This week, two new papers of Dutch care ethicists have been accepted and published in peer-reviewed journals. Rethinking Frans Vosman and Alistair Niemeijer published their paper on ‘Rethinking critical reflection on care: late modern uncertainty and the implications for care ethics’ in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy ((Vosman, F. & Niemeijer, A. Med Health Care and Philos (2017).…

  • Utrecht Care Ethics

    Utrecht Care Ethics

    Care ethics is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry, which is driven by societal questions. Since the beginning of the 1980s, in this field various movements and disciplines have an interdisciplinary conversation, among which philosophy, ethics, social sciences, political and policy sciences, and nursing sciences. The contribution made by the research group at the University of…

  • CERC Launch

    CERC Launch

    Joan Tronto and Carlo Leget launch Care Ethics Research Consortium (CERC) Prof. Tronto is one of care ethics’ pioneers and an internationally recognized political theorist; Prof. Leget is chair of the Dutch Care Ethics group at the University of Humanistic Studies (UHS) in the Netherlands, the place where a Master in Care Ethics is being…