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Care Ethics

The Care Ethics department focuses on the humanisation of care and welfare practices. The department has developed its own approach, which is also reflected in the Master’s programme in Care Ethics and Policy.

Care ethics is a political-ethical movement that seeks to understand how care holds society together. It is an interdisciplinary field of research driven by social questions. Care ethics emerged in the 1980s from feminist ethics, when attention was drawn to care as a structure within communities. Since then, various movements and disciplines have been engaged in an interdisciplinary dialogue, including philosophy, ethics, social sciences, political and policy sciences, and nursing sciences. The concept of care is broadly defined: care is a social practice, and if you look closely, it happens everywhere in society.

Chair

prof. dr. Carlo Leget, professor of Care Ethics

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