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 …

Philosophers who study care—most often, care ethicists—are involved in an ongoing
discussion about the concept of care. Despite the significant progress made in this …

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 …

In this important book, Virginia Held assesses the current state of the discussion on care,
presents her own thoughtful recent take on this discussion, and in so doing, suggests the …

Introduction What does it mean to care? And what is the significance of being a caregiver or
a recipient of care? Within the social sciences,'care'is paradoxical. On one hand, it is based …

'Thinking the political'may not seem like a new task for care ethicists. After all, more than 25
years ago, Joan Tronto's 1993 path-breaking book Moral boundaries already put forward the …

To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A
moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la …

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 …

The Heart of Justice proposes a new framework of political justice based upon the practice
of caring. Integrating the insights of earlier care theorists with the concerns of traditional …

Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral
theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few …