Care Professions and Globalization [electronic resource] : Theoretical and Practical Perspectives /
González, A.editor.
Iffland, C.editor.
This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theorists, economists, and professional caregivers to discuss the challenges of professional caregiving, analyzing how societies can promote relationships in which individuals can give and receive 'care'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures & Tables; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Social Trends Institute; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Challenges of "Care"; I. Care and Profession; II. The Ethics of Care; III. "Care" and Emotional Labor; IV. Introducing the Contributions; Notes; Bibliography; 1 The Completion of Care-With Implications for a Duty to Receive Care Graciously; Introduction; Prelude; The Logic of "Care"; The Taking Up of Care-Subjective and Objective Criteria; The Subject Who Is Unconscious
The Conscious Being with Impaired or Underdeveloped Judgment of His or Her Own GoodThe Mature, Conscious Subject Who Resists Care ; Implications for an Ethic of Care-Is There a Duty to Accept Care Graciously?; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Carefree in Barcelona; Introduction; Two theories of care; Care as Caritas; Care as Existential Commitment; Taking Care for the Dying; Theories of Care Reconsidered; Notes; 3 "Moved by the Suffering of Others": Using Aristotelian Theory to Think about Care; Introduction; Defining Virtue; Caregiving as an Activity;  "Caring About" as a Motivation to Act
Caring Practices and External GoodsPractices as "Schools of the Virtues"; Care in Other Contexts; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Social Contract Theory and Moral Agency: Understanding the Roots of an Uncaring Society; Introduction; The Individualist Roots of Social Contract Theory; Moral Agency and Practical Rationality; Moral Agency and Language; The Social Origins of the Asocial Conception of the Self; A Sociological Account of Agency; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 5 Emotional Work and Care as Relationship: Some Particularities and Consequences; Introduction
The Professionalization of Care in a Sociohistorical PerspectiveEmotional Work in Caring Activities; Artifice and Tensions in Emotional Work; Peculiarities of Emotional Work in the Caring Professions; Conclusions; Bibliography; 6 Socioeconomic Impact of the Work of the Home; Introduction; Understanding the Basic Structure of the Economic Activity; Relation between the Work of the Home and the Economic Activities; Some Aspects of the Work of the Home That Are Relevant in This Context; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
7 Working in the ICU: A Study on the Normalization of Tension in Health Care ProvisionIntroduction; The Intensive Care Unit: A Special Setting for Emotion Management; Emotional Labor in Critical Care; Emotional Labor as Tension Management; Providing Care in the ICU: When Tension Is the Compass for the Practice; Emotional Management of Tension: Conclusions and New Challenges; Notes; Bibliography; 8 Professionalizing Care-A Necessary Irony? Some Implications of the "Ethics of Care" for the Caring Professions and Informal Caring; Introduction: The Path of Professionalization
Professionalism and Care
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theorists, economists, and professional caregivers to discuss the challenges of professional caregiving, analyzing how societies can promote relationships in which individuals can give and receive 'care'.
Industrial sociology.
Social medicine.
Sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Cultural studies.
Sociology, Urban.
Sociology of Work.
Medical Sociology.
Sociology, general.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Cultural Studies.
Urban Studies/Sociology.