The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping ProfessionsSusan S. Phillips, Patricia Benner By combining stories of care, the reflections of caregiving practitioners, and interpretations of caregiving within a larger social and theoretical framework, this collection identifies the values and skills involved in quality caregiving at the individual level and affirms their importance for reshaping our public caregiving institutions. Contributors from the fields of medicine, nursing, teaching, ministry, sociology, psychotherapy, theology, and philosophy articulate their values, hopes, commitments, and practices both in theoretical essays and in narratives of caregiving that reveal the complexities of skillful practice. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
When Life Threatens | 14 |
Understanding Caring in Contemporary America | 18 |
Listening to the Heart | 33 |
Caring as a Way of Knowing and Not Knowing | 39 |
Meeting at the Table | 60 |
Teach Us to Care and Not to Care | 63 |
No Safe Conduct | 77 |
Photograph | 102 |
The Corrosion of Care in the Context of School | 106 |
Death by Choice | 116 |
The Role of Compassion in Moral Responsibility | 120 |
Beyond the Clinical Gaze | 141 |
Biblical and Theological Reflections | 146 |
Listening with Care | 165 |
Philosophical Reflections on Caring Practices | 171 |
Balancing the Three Es Effectiveness Efficiency and Empathy | 80 |
To Care Is to Listen | 92 |
Preparing Students for the World | 94 |
Contributors | 186 |
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