Objective: The aim of this paper is to consider the components of two moral theories – the ethics of virtue and the ethics of care – and their relationship to psychiatry.
Conclusions: Although both theories reflect fundamentally desirable human qualities, neither provides a comprehensive account of psychiatric ethics. We are therefore drawn to a similar conclusion as those of Hare (1993) and Bloch and Green (2006), in that these theories offer a complementary approach to other ethical theories in psychiatry.
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