TY - CHAP AB - The tradition of medicine has until now been characterized by an aspiration to provide as complete as possible a service of care to the populations to which it owes responsibility. The same holds for nursing and caring practices, but the tradition is loosening. Despite the collective assumption that medical and nursing practice rests on solid grounds of knowledge and is framed by a caring ethos, change in practice not only has typically come about in a complex and diffuse fashion, but has also come along with sacrifices, losses and deficits. VL - 9 SN - 978-0-7623-1438-6, 978-1-84950-501-7/1057-6290 DO - 10.1016/S1057-6290(07)09004-3 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1057-6290(07)09004-3 AU - Kohlen Helen ED - Barbara Katz Rothman ED - Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong ED - Rebecca Tiger PY - 2007 Y1 - 2007/01/01 TI - “What are We Really Doing Here?” Journeys into Hospital Ethics Committees in Germany: Nurses’ Participation and The(ir) Marginalization of Care T2 - Bioethical Issues, Sociological Perspectives T3 - Advances in Medical Sociology PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 91 EP - 128 Y2 - 2024/05/07 ER -