ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides the broad implications for theoretical developments of care ethics for a variety of issues and contexts. It explores the relevance of care ethics to current issues such as war, terrorism, and health care; to global concerns such as international law, economic globalization, poverty, and the global economic crisis; and to inequalities in a postcolonial context. The book focuses on these theoretical developments and applications, some of which broaden the discussion to the global context and issues in it, some of which focus on the effects of state and global economic policies on people in a specific context. It argues that work with theorist’s broad understanding of welfare to delineate new theories and applications in the political realm. The book describes the ethic of care in its academic and also in its application to personal, public and political relationships.
