Christine M. Koggel is Harvey Wexler Chair in Philosophy, Departmental Chair and Majors Advisor, and Co-Director of the Center for International Studies at Bryn Mawr College, USA. Joan Orme is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the Glasgow School of Social Work, Scotland, UK.

• 1. Introduction Christine M. Koggel and Joan Orme Part I: New Theories and Contemporary Issues 2. Can the Ethics of Care Handle Violence? Virginia Held 3. After Liberalism in World Politics? Towards an International Political Theory of Care Fiona Robinson 4. Cosmopolitan Care Sarah Clark Miller 5. Creating Caring Institutions: Politics, Plurality, and Purpose Joan C. Tronto 6. Interweaving Caring and Economics in the Context of Place: Experiences of Northern and Rural Women Caregivers Heather Peters, Jo-Anne Fiske, Dawn Hemingway, Anita Vaillancourt, Christina McLennan, Barb Keith and Anne Burrill 7. Gratitude and Caring Labor Amy Mullin 8. The Productivity of Care: Contextualizing Care in Situated Interaction and Shedding Light on its Latent Purposes Alessandro Pratesi Part II: New Applications in Contemporary Contexts 9. The Individual in Social Care: The Ethics of Care and the ‘Personalisation Agenda’ in Services for Older People in England Liz Lloyd 10. A Comparative Analysis of Personalisation: Balancing an Ethic of Care with User Empowerment Kirstein Rummery 11. Abandoning Care? A Critical Perspective on Personalisation from an Ethic of Care Marian Barnes 12. Care Ethics and Carers with Learning Disabilities: A Challenge to Dependence and Paternalism Nicki Ward 13. Care Ethics in Residential Child Care: A Different Voice Laura Steckley and Mark Smith 14. Care as Regulated and Care in the Obdurate World of Intimate Relations: Foster Care Divided? Andrew Pithouse and Alyson Rees 15. An Ethic of Care in Nursing: Past, Present and Future Considerations Martin Woods 16. Ethics and the Street-level Bureaucrat: Implementing Policy to Protect Elders from Abuse Angie Ash 17. Crossing the Divide between Theory and Practice: Research and an Ethic of Care Lizzie Ward and Beatrice Gahagan 18. That Others Matter: The Moral Achievement - Care Ethics and Citizenship in Practice with People with Dementia Tula Brannelly 19. The Daily Grind of the Forgotten Heroines: Experiences of HIV/AIDS Informal Caregivers in Botswana Odireleng Jankey and Tirelo Modie-Moroka