Ethics of care : critical advances in international perspective / [electronic resource]
Barnes, Marian,editor.
Brannelly, Tula,editor.
Ward, Lizzie(Elizabeth),editor.
Ward, Nicki,editor.
The international contributors to this unique collection demonstrate the significance of care ethics as a transformative way of thinking across diverse geographical, policy and interpersonal contexts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro -- ETHICS OF CARE -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Section One. Conceptual and theoretical developments -- 1. Introduction: the critical significance of care -- Care ethics: personal and political -- Global care and justice -- Care ethics and the historical moment -- the failure of neoliberalism -- Justice, renewal and virtue -- The crisis of and for care -- Book structure -- 2. Democratic caring and global care responsibilities -- Organising care giving in an uncaring world order -- Are caring democracies the solution? -- Caring democracies and nation-states as containers of care -- Conclusion -- 3. Beyond the dyad: exploring the multidimensionality of care -- Introduction -- Origins -- Developments -- Networks and collectives -- Presence/distance -- Intimacy -- Time -- Conclusion -- 4. Caring for ourselves? Self-care and neoliberalism -- Introduction -- Self-care from the perspective of care ethics -- Self-help to self-care: from collective struggle to neoliberal co-option -- Self-care and 'chronic' health conditions: expert patients -- Self-care and 'active ageing': ageing as a 'lifestyle' choice -- Feminist ethics of care: refusing the neoliberal frame -- 5. Care ethics, intersectionality and poststructuralism -- Introduction -- Identity and care ethics: a symbiotic relationship? -- Poststructuralism, intersectionality and a critical ethics of care -- Carer and cared for: new intersections of identity -- Conclusion -- 6. Care ethics and indigenous values: political, tribal and personal -- Introduction -- Core Maori values that can inform an ethic of care -- Discussion -- Conclusion: inhabiting the moral boundary -- 7. Privilege and responsibility in the South African context -- Introduction -- Privilege, responsibility and privileged irresponsibility.
Instances of privileged irresponsibility from the South African context -- How can privileged irresponsibility be addressed? -- Discussion and conclusion -- 8. Empathy in pursuit of a caring ethic in international development -- Introduction: positioning development ethics after the Millennium Development Goals -- Empathy: the epistemic bridge at the intersections of care -- Empathy as intersubjective process -- Empathy in action: from immersions to the International Child Development Programme -- Conclusions -- Section Two . Care ethics in practice -- 9. Exploring possibilities in telecare for ageing societies -- Introduction -- Experimenting with telecare arrangements: affording valued positions, reciprocity and symmetry -- Telecare comes with new demands and responsibilities -- Telecare creates new work and requires new skills and routines -- Weighing and balancing different values and ideals in care -- Conclusion: is telecare replacing or relying on care and networks? -- 10. Paradoxical constructions in Danish elder care -- Introduction -- Care and recognition -- Changing views on older people -- From gerontology to the elder care sector -- A 'paradigm shift' in day care centres -- Customers or members? -- Is care needed? -- Care or documentation? -- From 'servicing' to activating -- Conclusion -- 11. Contours of matriarchy in care for people living with AIDS -- Introduction -- Concepts and data -- Care as practice -- Care as power -- Conclusion -- 12. HIV care and interdependence in Tanzania and Uganda -- Introduction -- Theorising interdependent caring relations -- Interdependent caring relations within families -- Peer support, care giving and the participation of PLHA 'service users' in healthcare -- Conclusion -- 13. Reciprocity and mutuality: people with learning disabilities as carers -- Introduction -- Mutuality and reciprocity.
Attentiveness: caring about -- Responsibility: caring for -- Competence: care giving -- Responsiveness: care receiving -- Conclusions: caring morality, reciprocity and mutual care -- 14. People with intellectual disabilities (visually) reimagine care -- Introduction -- The 'What's wrong with this picture?' project -- Vulnerability, dependency and the need for care -- Seeing un-care -- Picturing care differently -- Discussion -- Photographic representation as an ethical and political practice of care -- Conclusion -- 15. Care ethics and physical restraint in residential childcare -- Introduction -- Context -- Ethics, residential childcare and physical restraint -- Findings -- Discussion: physical restraint and care ethics? -- Conclusion -- 16. Care for carers: care in the context of medical migration -- Introduction -- Individual autonomies and interdependencies in understanding migration -- Types of vulnerability -- Professional vulnerability -- Personal vulnerability -- Socio-cultural vulnerability -- Caring societies: healthcare market and care policies -- Conclusion -- 17. Mental health service use and the ethics of care: in pursuit of justice -- The issues of care and justice in mental health -- Renewing care and justice with the ethics of care -- Transformations in mental health services -- 18. Conclusion: renewal and transformation -- the importance of an ethics of care -- Barriers, challenges and opportunities -- The personal is political -- Renewing care through dialogue -- Interpersonal relations, subjectivity and identity -- Practising care -- Solidarity and social justice -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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The international contributors to this unique collection demonstrate the significance of care ethics as a transformative way of thinking across diverse geographical, policy and interpersonal contexts.
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