Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding
towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issues, this book develops …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

'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 …

This chapter introduces the historical and conceptual contexts of a moral and political theory
of care. One of the main stories about care ethics is that it began in moral psychology with …

After COVID-19 was characterised as a pandemic in spring 2020, care and care work
became very dominant topics in public discourse in Western Europe. Against this backdrop …

Informal caregiving is increasingly considered a health care delivery-resource within the
North European welfare states. While 'informal'often refers to non-professional,'caregiving' …

In the introduction to this collection we highlighted the value of the ethics of care not only in
enabling a critique of policy and practice, but as a way of transforming this. Here we offer …