Care Professions and Globalization ― Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

While everyone recognizes the need for care, not everyone recognizes the multiple realities signified by our use of the term. This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need for "care" from the perspective of diverse academic and professional disciplines. Our contributors presuppose that "care" is not just a particular kind of academic discourse - whether in the area of feminist ethics or social work - but is rather a developing profession with its own particular challenges. By exploring the different ways in which care is deployed in philosophical and practical contexts, this volume should help readers understand the practical challenges posed by the professionalization of care and the kind of policy approaches that will best promote the delivery of good "care".

Ana Marta Gonzalez is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at University of Navarra, Spain, where she earned her PhD in 1997 with Extraordinary Prize. In 2002-3 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to work on the relationship of morality, nature, and culture in Kant's practical Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of Harvard University. She is currently the Academic Leader of the Culture and Lifestyles branch of the Social Trends Institute, and Director of the Emotional Culture and Identity Project (CEMID) of the Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Navarra (ICS), where she serves also as Scientific Coordinator.
Craig Iffland is a Researcher at the Social Trends Institute.