ABSTRACT

The ethic of care has developed to become a body of theory that has expanded from its roots in social psychology to many other disciplines in the social sciences as well as the humanities. This work on care has informed both theory and practice by generating complex accounts of care ethics for multiple and intersecting kinds of relationships, and for a variety of domains and contexts. Its application now extends from the moral to the political realm, from personal to public relationships, from the local to the global, from feminine to feminist virtues and values, and from issues of gender to issues of power and oppression.

The developments in the theories and applications of care ethics over the past few decades make this book an appropriate and timely publication. It includes chapters by authors who are developing or expanding theories of care ethics and also by those who work on applying and extending insights from care ethics to practices and policies in personal and institutional settings. Care Ethics provides readers from different disciplines and professional groups with a substantial number of new theories and applications from both new and established authors.

This book was originally published as two special issues of Ethics and Social Welfare.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

part I|1 pages

New Theories and Contemporary Issues

chapter |13 pages

Cosmopolitan Care

chapter |14 pages

Creating Caring Institutions

Politics, Plurality, and Purpose

chapter |13 pages

Gratitude and Caring Labor

chapter |15 pages

The Productivity of Care

Contextualizing Care in Situated Interaction and Shedding Light on its Latent Purposes

part II|1 pages

New Applications in Contemporary Contexts

chapter |13 pages

The Individual in Social Care

The Ethics of Care and the ‘Personalisation Agenda’ in Services for Older People in England

chapter |15 pages

A Comparative Analysis of Personalisation

Balancing an Ethic of Care with User Empowerment

chapter |13 pages

Care Ethics and Carers with Learning Disabilities

A Challenge to Dependence and Paternalism

chapter |15 pages

Care Ethics in Residential Child Care

A Different Voice

chapter |11 pages

An Ethic of Care in Nursing

Past, Present and Future Considerations

chapter |9 pages

Ethics and the Street-level Bureaucrat

Implementing Policy to Protect Elders from Abuse

chapter |7 pages

Crossing the Divide between Theory and Practice

Research and an Ethic of Care

chapter |7 pages

That Others Matter

The Moral Achievement—Care Ethics and Citizenship in Practice with People with Dementia

chapter |8 pages

The Daily Grind of the Forgotten Heroines

Experiences of HIV/AIDS Informal Caregivers in Botswana