<The> ethics of care: the state of the art

The ethics of care, developed in early 1980s within feminism as a critique on the biases of neokantian ethics, is 40 years old. This book presents its key insights, the developments and debates over the years and the challenges care ethics faces. Internationally renown scholars from various continents have contributed, a clear sign that care ethics has spread over the globe. The key insights regard issues close by, care from person to person, but also at an institutional level and questions of global impact. Vulnerability and relationality are examples of these insights. What can caring practices, ranging from social welfare to palliative care, learn from care ethics? Has care ethics had an impact on ethics at large and what is its future?"-- Información de la editorial "The ethics of care, developed in early 1980s within feminism as a critique on the biases of neokantian ethics, is 40 years old. This book presents its key insights, the developments and debates over the years and the challenges care ethics faces. Internationally renown scholars from various continents have contributed, a clear sign that care ethics has spread over the globe. The key insights regard issues close by, care from person to person, but also at an institutional level and questions of global impact. Vulnerability and relationality are examples of these insights. What can caring practices, ranging from social welfare to palliative care, learn from care ethics? Has care ethics had an impact on ethics at large and what is its future?"-- Provided by publisher Table of Contents Acknowledgements After Forty Years: Toward a Recasting of Care Ethics The Disenchantment of Care Ethics A Critical Cartography The Role of Emotions in the Ethics and Politics of Care Vulnerability and Trust. A Phenomenological Perspective on the Practice of Care Ordinary Realism in Ethics Care Ethics and the Social Contract Care and Justice Applying or Reinventing? The Ethics of Care and Social Work Care and the New Patterns of Precarity “Time Matters a Lot in Care Practices” Palliative Care Meets Care Ethics1 Empirically Grounded Ethics of Care An Argument Index of Names Index of Subjects Ethics of Care