Resumen: 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