Urinary incontinence is a common problem among older adults that is often complicated by
many nuanced ethical considerations. Unfortunately, there is a lack of guidance for …

Deficiencies in old age care are some of the most pressing human rights concerns in mature
welfare states. This book radically challenges the ethics of viewing care as a tradeable …

Violence in family caregiving, once a social taboo, is now emerging as a topic of scientific
inquiry. Engaging with a non‐normative approach to care and critical reflection on research …

I was at the F ward in the nursing home. One of the residents was Tiffany Doggett, who
played the part of an angel in the American series 'Orange Is the New Black'. Tiffany saw …

Global health is underpinned by violence and this violence is gendered. To draw together
the main conclusions of the book, I revisited two important bodies of work that came to mind …

Surveying the significantly expanding philosophical literature, we can find different ways of
thinking about care. On virtue-oriented accounts, care is interpreted as a moral disposition or …

Adult incontinence, both urinary and faecal, are common conditions. Incontinence, however,
and the pads utilised for its management, are silenced. Like waste in the welfare state, they …

In this book, we have introduced ailment as a conceptual tool to analyse the ways in which
societies have responded to ailment as a fundamental human condition. We have argued …