Yes ! There is an ethics of care : an answer for

This paper is a response to Peter Allmark 's thesis that 'there can be no "caring" ethics'. It argues that the current preoccupation in nursing to define an ethics of care is a direct result of breaking nursing tradition. Subsequent attempts to find a moral basis for care, whetherfrom subjective experiential perspectives such as described by Noddings, orfrom rational and detached approaches derivedfrom Kant, are inevitably flawed. Writers may still implicitly presuppose a concept of care drawn from the Judaeo-Christian tradition but without explicit recourse to its moral basis nursing is left rudderless and potentially without purpose. The very concept of 'care' cut offfrom its roots becomes a meaningless term without either normative or descriptive