Care Professions and Globalization is aimed at a broad audience interested in the challenges arising from the professionalization of care. While this subject has been the focus of many studies concerned with the development of the various health professions (e.g. nursing), this book also focuses on emerging professional domains of care (e.g. domestic work).
Chapters 1-3 pose a theoretical challenge to this dominant paradigm. Each links the activity of caregiving, and the emotions linked to the activity of “caring”, with an individual’s possession of certain virtues. Without the virtues, one cannot succeed at “caregiving.” Since, however, the virtues are those dispositions of character that are necessary for improving any sphere of human activity, it follows that “caring” and “caregiving”, as enabled by particular human virtues, are (a) subject to objective standards of evaluation, derived from the very relationship of caring for others and (b) have the potential to be features of sustainable improvement in the practice of the caring professions.
In Chapters 4-6, utilizing the latest sociological literature on professional care work, each contributor explores the practice of care assuming a view of human beings as relational beings.
Chapters 7-10 provide some professional perspectives on the obstacles to professionalization of care work and suggest ways they might be overcome.
Book Index
Introduction by Ana Marta González & Craig Iffland
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on Care
Chapter 1- Eva Kittay
Chapter 2- David Smith
Chapter 3- Kim Redgrave
Part II: Sociological Perspectives on Care
Chapter 4- Alejandro Garcia
Chapter 5- Melissa Moschella
Chapter 6- Ambrogia Cereda
Part III: Professional Perspectives on Care
Chapter 7- Richard Hugman
Chapter 8- Mercedes Perez (on nursing)
Chapter 9- Maria Pia Chirinos (on domestic work)
Chapter 10- Carlos Centeno (on palliative care)
