Introduction / Susan S. Phillips -- Narrative : when life threatens / Harvey Peskin -- Understanding caring in contemporary America / Robert N. Bellah -- Narrative : listening to the heart / Lynn Schimmel -- Caring as a way of knowing and not knowing / Patricia Benner -- Narrative : meeting at the table / Douglass E. Fitch -- Teach us to care and not to care / Eugene H. Peterson -- Narrative : no safe conduct / William Visick -- The caring physician : balancing the three Es : effectiveness, efficiency, and empathy / E. Dawn Swaby-Ellis -- Narrative : to care is to listen / Mima Baird -- Preparing students for the world / Jaime Escalante -- Narrative : photograph / Sandi Schaffer -- The corrosion of care in the context of school / Anna E. Richert -- Narrative : death by choice / Theresa Stephany -- Beyond the ethics of rightness : the role of compassion in moral responsibility / David C. Thomasma -- Narrative : beyond the clinical gaze / W. Thomas Boyce -- Caring as gift and goal : biblical and theological reflections / Joel B. Green -- Narrative : listening with care / Morris A. Magnan -- Philosophical reflections on caring practices / Charles Taylor
