Writing on care highlights that caring is full of both problems and possibilities. Caring for
others can be a source of pleasure and fulfillment, but it can also be undervalued and …

This collection of essays, and much recent work on the ethics of care, has sought to expand
our understanding of care in terms of its transformative potential in both political and …

Book summary: how can we make sense of the varying concepts of care and of the many
forms care takes in practice? How cangood'care be defined and evaluated? This book …

What does 'care'mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in
different contexts? What resources do individuals and collectives draw upon in order to care …

Over the past few decades, geographies of care have flourished, and have offered important
insights into the importance of care in our worlds. This introduction provides a broad review …

When Carol Gilligan (1982) first introduced the ethic of care she did so from the discipline of
psychology using empirical data that questioned Kohlberg's (1981) negative assumptions …

This chapter argues that good care in an institutional context has three central foci: the
purpose of care, recognition of power relations, and the need for pluralistic, particular …

Care giving has become a high-profile issue in policy and practice, yet much of the literature
conceives it as burdensome or even oppressive. Drawing extensively on real-life examples …

Caring is a social and moral practice that involves not only dealing with feelings of love,
compassion, empathy, and involvement but also of grief, anger and rejection. As a …

This chapter examines what caring means and what caring entails. Caring is not something
which can be neatly defined, not even by the redoubtable Oxford dictionary. Caring …