Duties to Care

Rosie Harding is Chair in Law and Society at the University of Birmingham, a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, and Chair of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA). Her research focuses on the everyday regulation and legal recognition of intimate and caring relationships. Her first monograph, Regulating Sexuality (2011), won the 2011 SLSA-Hart Book Prize and SLSA-Hart Early Career Prize. She is editor of Law and Sexuality (2016), and co-editor of Ageing and Sexualities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2016) and Revaluing Care in Theory, Law and Politics: Cycles and Connections (2017).

• 1. Introducing Duties to Care; 2. Vulnerability, relationality and the challenge of dementia for law; 3. Carers in law and society; 4. Planning for the future in the early stages of dementia; 5. Navigating life with dementia; 6. Complaints and complaining about health and social care; 7. Death and dying with and of dementia; 8. Carers' emotional, social and material investments; 9. Conclusions: relational duties to care.

'This book is an important reminder of the need to blend theoretical and grounded methodologies in evaluating and developing legal responses to impaired capacity. The powerful personal narratives underpin an elegantly constructed argument in favour of a relational approach while at the same time recognising the unavoidable complexities in delivering this.' Mary Donnelly, Cork University