Sarah Clark Miller Need For Care Summary
Sarah Clark Miller; The Need for Care
Contemporary moral philosophical accounts approach the accounts in the viewpoint of needs. In particular ends, some needs are morally more important as compared to other instrumental needs. Sarah Clark Miller writes on the Need for Care to objectively give the theories and emerging issues in the subject. Typically, there is an issue of ‘needing’ in the course of understanding the theory as well as the question of what makes the need of something morally important. Essentially, the needs expounded in Miller's theory is understood in terms of a necessary condition in which she focuses on the particular things that satisfy certain needs. The needs include the need for water, food, clothing, and housing.
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The most significant question that arises is what the duty to care to tell us about our obligations to an aging population and, specifically, to our own parents. Essentially, the aspect of care to the aging population raises the agency in the need for care concept. Miller explains this in a “web of vulnerability and interdependence in which they are situated” (104). It is more surprising, however, that the account of the duties of individuals turns to a call for the support of public institutions to meet these needs. The instance is portrayed in the other case in applying the duty to care in the context of the current tendency to ration healthcare services away from the aging population. Here, social conditions of oppression and sexism influence the duty to care.
Consequently, rationing in a context of limited resources and large increases in the population of the elderly isn’t wrong in and of itself. However, the rationing happens at the expense of women, who live longer than men, are discriminated against with respect to healthcare services as it is, and are perceived as caregivers rather than care-receivers, is a matter for justice. According to Miller, the duty to care would enable an analysis of factors of oppression that result in increased needs and diminished agency for women (Miller,
Contemporary moral philosophical accounts approach the accounts in the viewpoint of needs. In particular ends, some needs are morally more important as compared to other instrumental needs. Sarah Clark Miller writes on the Need for Care to objectively give the theories and emerging issues in the subject. Typically, there is an issue of ‘needing’ in the course of understanding the theory as well as the question of what makes the need of something morally important. Essentially, the needs expounded in Miller's theory is understood in terms of a necessary condition in which she focuses on the particular things that satisfy certain needs. The needs include the need for water, food, clothing, and housing.
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The most significant question that arises is what the duty to care to tell us about our obligations to an aging population and, specifically, to our own parents. Essentially, the aspect of care to the aging population raises the agency in the need for care concept. Miller explains this in a “web of vulnerability and interdependence in which they are situated” (104). It is more surprising, however, that the account of the duties of individuals turns to a call for the support of public institutions to meet these needs. The instance is portrayed in the other case in applying the duty to care in the context of the current tendency to ration healthcare services away from the aging population. Here, social conditions of oppression and sexism influence the duty to care.
Consequently, rationing in a context of limited resources and large increases in the population of the elderly isn’t wrong in and of itself. However, the rationing happens at the expense of women, who live longer than men, are discriminated against with respect to healthcare services as it is, and are perceived as caregivers rather than care-receivers, is a matter for justice. According to Miller, the duty to care would enable an analysis of factors of oppression that result in increased needs and diminished agency for women (Miller,