ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the crossing of the social sciences and ethical research. It describes how to illuminate 'the ethical' through exploring everyday engagements of care that are the order of the day in the production of science. Attention to the ethical issues emerging in our fieldwork in biogerontology point at questions which clearly exceed the frame of the laboratory of basic science and show how scientific matters of fact can be also seen as matters of ethical care. The chapter discusses the field of gerontology from the perspective of the different ethical issues that it raises, and considers on a broader context that affects the framing of ethical issues in the production of scientific knowledge. It compares a notion of Ethics, with a capital E, as the motivation of institutionalized approaches to the ethical; then by introducing the trope of care as an entry to observe the everyday ethicality.
