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Article Critique of The Ethic of Care The purpose of this paper is to pr

The purpose of this paper is to present a critique of the following article:

Peter, E. & Gallop, R. (1994). The ethic of care: A comparison of nursing and medical students. IMAGE: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 26(1), 47-51.

The presented critique examines several components of the Peter and Gallop research including review of information presented in the abstract and the background section of the article. Also analyzed are design and methodology. A redesign of two major problems with the research is offered.

The abstract can be considered adequate in that it presents the study's basic research problem, its purposes and methods of data collection, its findings, and its basic conclusion. However, the terminology used in the abstract is so highly conceptual that when the reader goes on to read the background section, it becomes apparent that the terms used in the abstract (e.g. "justice considerations" and "moral orientations" provided very scant information as to the concrete nature of the research that was conducted.

Significance. Peter and Gallop (1994) state that the study's investigation of the concept of caring and its association with moral reasoning is important to the field of nursing because all of the tasks, activities, and training associated with the discipline can be unified around the notion of caring. They further note that since caring is described in the existing literature as an ethic, this is a claim that necessarily entails some level of morality. By examining for connections between caring and moral reasoning, the authors are therefore investigating one of the primary assumptive foundations of the field of nursing. This logic seems both reasonable and adequate in terms of justifying an empirical inquiry into the research variables.

Literature Review. The literature review is comprehensive. It provides justification for conducting the medical students versus nurses and male versus female c...

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