Care Professions and Globalization

Acknowledgements A Note on the Social Trends Institute Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Challenges of 'Care'; Ana Marta González and Craig Iffland Theoretical Perspectives 1. The Completion of Care - With Implications for a Duty to Receive Care Graciously; Eva Feder Kittay 2. Carefree in Barcelona; David H. Smith 3. 'Moved by the Suffering of Others': Using Aristotelian Theory to Think about Care; Kim Redgrave 4. Social Contract Theory and Moral Agency: Understanding the Roots of an Uncaring Society; Melissa Moschella 5. Emotional Work and Care as Relationship: some Particularities and Consequences; Alejandro García Practical Perspectives 6. Socio-Economic Impact of the Work of the Home; M. Sophia Aguirre 7. Working in the ICU: A Study on the Normalization of Tension in Health Care Provision; Ambrogia Cereda 8. Professionalizing Care - a Necessary Irony? Some Implications of the 'Ethics of Care' for the Caring Professions and Informal Caring; Richard Hugman 9. Domestic Work: Judgments and Biases Regarding Mundane Tasks; María Pía Chirinos 10. The Moral Sense of Nursing Care; Mercedes Pérez 11. A Professional Perspective on End of Life Care; Carlos Centeno