Co-edited volume ‘Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions’

Click here for the Open Access, free download of this recently published book, that I co-edited with my wonderful colleagues Maurice Hamington and Maureen Sander-Staudt.

Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions (2022) is a collection of original essays that address the intersection between contemporary feminist care ethics and religious morality. Feminist care ethics is one of the most dynamic areas in modern theory. This relational approach to morality emphasizes context, emotion, and imagination over consequences, rules, and rights has only been around for about four decades, with its definition still being negotiated. Still, the respect for this approach is demonstrated by its widespread inclusion in moral discourse. Historically, care has been an overlooked concept in philosophy, but religion’s ambivalence toward care ethics is even more pronounced. On the one hand, caring is a fundamental value espoused by virtually all religions and spiritual traditions. Yet, on the other hand, deontological principles so essential to many religious moralities create clear categories of adjudication antithetical to feminist care ethics. Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions engages theorists from various disciplines in discussing the continuities, discontinuities, and applications of feminist care ethics, spiritual traditions, and religion.
This collection includes contributions from Ruth E. Groenhout, Maurice Hamington, Adriana Jesenková, Luigina Mortari, Sarah Munawar, Inge van Nistelrooij, Kimberley D. Parzuchowski, Jamie Pitts, Martin Robb, Jason Rubenstein, Robert Michael Ruehl, Maureen Sander-Staudt, Steven Steyl, and Sarah Zager. The volume also includes a foreword by Catherine Keller.

Inaugural speech

Van Nistelrooij, I. (2022). Het zelf als moeder. De Dialogical Self Theory vanuit zwangerschap, zorgpraktijken en baarzaam-zijn. (The self as mother. The Dialogical Self Theory from pregnancy, caring practices and ‘being able to bear’). Inaugural speech in acceptance of the chair as professor by special appointment ‘Dialogical Self Theory’, embedded in the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Faculty Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, department of Metaphysics and philosophical anthropology. 18 March 2022.

Peer reviewed articles

2022

• Van Dijke, J., Duyndam, J., Bos, P. & Van Nistelrooij, I. (2022). “Empathic flow: Dutch humanist chaplains’ experiences with professional empathy and its challenges”, Pastoral Psychology (accepted).
• Van der Waal, R. & Van Nistelrooij, I. (2022). Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”. Nursing Ethics (online first, 31 January 2022)
• Van Dijke, J., Duyndam, J., Van Nistelrooij, I. & Bos, P. (2022). “We need to talk about empathy”: Dutch humanist chaplains’ perspectives on empathy’s functions, downsides, and limitations in chaplaincy care. Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling, see: doi: 10.1177/15423050221074271. (published online).

2021

• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2021). Maternal self-understanding: a dialogue between maternal theory and the dialogical self theory. In: C. Monereo, C. Weise, H. Hermans (Eds.), Dialogicality. Personal, local, and planetary dialogue in Education, Health, Citizenship, and Research. Published on Humanities Commons, see: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/gqxq-ng18 .
• Van der Waal, R., Mitchell, V., Van Nistelrooij, I. & Bozalek V. (2021). Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other. Agenda,  35:3, 36-53, https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2021.1958553
• Van Nistelrooij, I. & Niemeijer, A. (2021). Living in an ‘ordinary’ neighborhood? A care-ethical exploration of the experiences of young adults with mild intellectual disabilities. Disability & Society, 1-24; see: https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2021.1946677

2020

• Van Dijke, J.L.C. , Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. , Bos, G. & Duyndam, J. (2020), Towards a relational conceptualization of empathy. Nursing Philosophy (Open Access, DOI: 10.1111/nup.12297 or click here for online full text).

2019

• Van Nistelrooij, I. & Van der Waal, R. (2019), Moederschap en geboorte: relationaliteit als alternatieve ethische benadering (Maternity and birth: relationality as an alternative ethical approach’. Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidszorg en Ethiek, July. Click here for online version on www.zorgethiek.nu (in Dutch).

2018

• Van Nistelrooij, I. & Visse, M. (2018). “Me?” The invisible call of responsibility and its promise for care ethics, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. (Open Access). doi: 10.1007/s11019-018-9873-7 (printed version: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 22, pages 275–285 (2019))
• Van Dijke, J.L.C., Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M., Bos, G. & Duyndam, J. (2018). Care ethics: an ethics of empathy? Nursing Ethics. doi: 10.1177/0969733018761172

2017

• Baur, V.E., Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. & Vanlaere, L. (2017). The sensible health care professional: a care ethical perspective on the role of caregivers in emotionally turbulent practices. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. doi: 10.1007/s11019-017-9770-5
• Leget, C.J.W., Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. & Visse, M.A. (2017). Beyond demarcation: care ethics as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Nursing Ethics 26(1)17-25. doi: 10.1177/0969733017707008
• Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. , Visse, M.A., Spekkink, A. & De Lange, J. (2017). How shared is Shared Decision-Making? A care-ethical view on the role of partner and family. Journal of Medical Ethics, 43:637-644. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103791
• Van Reenen, E. & Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. (2017). A spoonful of care ethics: the challenges of enriching medical education. Nursing Ethics, 26(4)1160-1171. doi: 10.1177/0969733017747956

2016

• Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. & Leget, C.J.W. (2016). Against dichotomies: on mature care and self-sacrifice in care ethics. Nursing Ethics, 1-10. doi: 10.1177/0969733015624475

2015

• Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. (2015). Wat moeten we met naasten en familie? Gezamenlijke besluitvorming en het relationele netwerk van de patient. Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidszorg & Ethiek, 25(1)14-18. (Republished online with permission on zorgethiek.nu, available 7 Jun 2015)

2014

• Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M., Schaafsma, E.P. & Tronto, J.C. (2014). Ricoeur and the ethics of care. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 17(4)485-491. doi: 10.1007/s11019-014-9595-4
• Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. (2014). Self-sacrifice and self-affirmation within care-giving. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 17(4)519-528. doi: 10.1007/s11019-013-9523-z

2012

• Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. & Vosman, F.J.H. (2012). Conditions for Religious Discourse in Secularized Ethical Health Care. Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, 66 (3), 1-11.

Book chapter

• Van Nistelrooij, I. & Bredewold, F. (2022). “He is never ever going to pay off.” A relational care ethical response to ideas of ‘worthy mothering’ for a child with profound intellectual disability. (submitted)
• Hamington, M., van Nistelrooij, I. & Sander-Staudt, M. (2022). Introduction. In: Van Nistelrooij, I., Sander-Staudt, M. & Hamington, M. (eds), Care Ethics, Religion and Spiritual Traditions, Leuven: Peeters. Click here for the pdf of this introduction.
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2022). The Fluidity of Becoming. The Maternal Body in Feminist Views of Care, Worship and Theology. In: Van Nistelrooij, I., Sander-Staudt, M. & Hamington, M. (eds), Care Ethics, Religion and Spiritual Traditions, Leuven: Peeters. Click here for the pdf of this chapter.
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2018). Affective coexistence. Pity as a connection between emotion and ethical knowledge. In: Bourgault, S. & Pulcini, E.(eds), Emotions and Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Leuven: Peeters.
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2018). Coesistenza affettiva: la pietà come connessione tra emozione e conoscenza etica. In: Pulcini, E. & Bourgault, S. (eds), Cura ed emozioni. Un’alleanza complessa Bologna: Società editrice Il Mulino
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2016). Self-sacrifice and Care Ethics. In J. Duyndam, A. Korte & M. Poorthuis (Eds.), Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity. From Nationalism and Nonviolence to Health Care and Harry Potter. Studies in theology and religion (pp. 270-287). Leiden: Brill

Edited volume

• Van Nistelrooij I., Van der Waal R. & Mitchell V. (eds.), Reproductive Justice: Care Ethics and Beyond, (in preparation, planned for publication in 2024).
• Van Nistelrooij I., Sander-Staudt M. & Hamington, M. (eds) (2022), Care Ethics, Religion and Spiritual Traditions, Leuven: Peeters (published Open Access here).

Dissertation

• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2014, January 15). Sacrifice. A care-ethical reappraisal of sacrifice and self-sacrifice. UvH Universiteit voor Humanistiek (267 pag.) (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2015) Supervisor: prof. dr. F.J.H. Vosman.

Book reviews

• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2021), Review of Gallagher A. ‘Slow Ethics and the Art of Care,’ Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing, 2020. ISBN: 9781839091988, for Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidszorg en Ethiek (TGE), 31(2)58.
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2021), Review of C. Zufferey & F. Buchanan (2020), ‘Intersections of mothering. Feminist accounts’, New York, Routledge, for Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidszorg en Ethiek (TGE), 31(1)13.
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2019), Review of C. Gilligan & N. Snider (2019), ‘Why does patriarchy persist?’, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2018; for International Journal of Care and Caring, 4(1)125-126.
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2019), Review of H. Wildschut & I. Boesveld (eds.), ‘Integrale geboortezorg. Samen bevalt goed’, Houten: Bohn, Stafleu, Van Loghum, 2018; in Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidszorg en Ethiek (TGE), 29(2)60.
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2018), Review of Lewis Vaughn, Contemporary Moral Arguments. Readings in Ethical Issues (Second Edition), , Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013, in Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidszorg en Ethiek (TGE), 28(4)128.
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2018). Review of De Sutter P & Delrue E. De maakbare baby. Een onbegrensd verlangen? Gent: Academia Press, 2017. 240 blz. ISBN 978-014-4343-2 in Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidszorg en Ethiek (TGE), 28(2)63.

Online popular publications (in English)

• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2017) Interview for Care Ethics Research Consortium

Online popular publications (in Dutch)

• Ethici over abortus: “Er wordt meer óver dan met de zwangere gesproken” (‘Ethicists on abortion: “They speak more about than with the pregnant person”‘), 2022, interview with Vox, magazine Radboud University Nijmegen (available 16 July 2022).
• Bredewold, F. & Van Nistelrooij, I. (2022), ‘Laten we ophouden met het stigmatiseren van langdurige zorgrelaties’ (‘Let’s stop stigmatizing longlasting care relationships’), Socialevraagstukken.nl, (available 3 May 2022).
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2020). “Basic is: making things more inclusive”. In gesprek met Joan Tronto. (available 5 Nov 2020).
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2019). De uitgewiste vrouw (The erased woman) (article). Zorgethiek.nu (available 13 Dec 2019).
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2018). Leeservaring: De maakbare baby. (book review). Zorgethiek.nu. (available: 3 Oct 2018).
• Van Nistelrooij, I. & J. de Bruijn (2017). ‘Het is de hoogste tijd dat zorgethiek op de kaart wordt gezet’. (interview). Zorgethiek.nu (available: 18 Dec 2017).
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2017). Zorg als werk: internationale perspectieven (3). (artikel). Zorgethiek.nu. (available: 25 Oct 2017).
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2017) Internationale zorgethici: Inge van Nistelrooij. (interview). Zorgethiek.nu (available: 17 Oct 2017).
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2017). Zorg als werk: internationale perspectieven (2). (artikel). Zorgethiek.nu. (available: 15 Jul 2017).
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2017). Zorg als werk: internationale perspectieven (1). (artikel). Zorgethiek.nu. (available: 6 Jul 2017).
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2017). Veiligheid of vrijheid bij mensen met dementie?  Zorgethiek.nu. (available: 14 Mar 2017).
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2017). Wat we als samenleving van zorg kunnen leren. (artikel; uitgewerkte lezing). Zorgethiek.nu. (available: 10 Mar 2017)
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2016). Meer ruimte voor morele en ethische dilemma’s. (interview). Zorgethiek.nu. (available: 10 Apr 2016; republished with permission from: https://publicaties.zonmw.nl/zingeving-in-de-zorg/ )
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2014). Promotie Inge van Nistelrooij: Zelfopoffering in de zorg. (interview). zorgethiek.nu (available: 7 Jan 2014).
• Van Nistelrooy I , Molewijk B, De Witte J, Delhaas J, Thalen J, Remmerden B van (2010), ‘Handreiking implementatie en borging moreel beraad’ (Guide for implementation and securing ethical case deliberation), see https://hetneon.nl/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/100505-Handreiking-implementatie-MB-DEF-mei2010.pdf

Scientific publications (non peer reviewed)

• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2020). Voorwoord voor special issue over Ethiekondersteuning – zorgethische perspectieven (Introduction to a special issue on ethics support – care ethical perspectives). Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidszorg en Ethiek, 20 (2) p.38. (Journal of Health Care and Ethics)

  

• Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. (2015). Het goede in de zorg: een kwestie van kiezen of van beamen? Speling : Tijdschrift voor Bezinning, 2015 (1), 45-51. Click here for the publisher’s site.
• Van Nistelrooij, A.A.M. & Vosman, F.J.H. (2013). Religieuze taal in moreel beraad. Tijdschrift Geestelijke Verzorging, 16, 45-54.

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  Van Nistelrooy, Inge (1996). Martha en Maria revisited. Zorg als ethisch perspectief. Tilburg University Press. (Sold out; edited master’s thesis, awarded with Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmesprijs, Tilburg University’s emancipation award)

Popular publications for professionals

• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2022). Basisboek Zorgethiek. Over mensbeeld, moraal en ethische reflectie in de zorg (‘Handbook of Care Ethics. On anthropology, morality and ethical reflection in care’). Heeswijk: Berne / Utrecht: Universiteit voor Humanistiek / Woerden: Reliëf. Completely revised and updated version of 2008 book, with a letter to the readers by Joan C. Tronto.
• Van Nistelrooij, I. (2009). Zorgen doe je samen. Over relaties in de zorg. Heeswijk: Berne Media.
• Van Nistelrooy, I. (2008). Basisboek Zorgethiek. Over menslievende zorg, moreel beraad en de motivatie van verpleegkundigen. Heeswijk: Berne Media.