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Author Tronto, Joan C., 1952- author.

Title Who Cares? : How to Reshape a Democratic Politics / Joan C. Tronto
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 48 pages)
Series Brown Democracy Medal
Contents Introduction -- When We Understand Care, We'll Need to Redefine Democracy -- Care, Inc. -- Making the Caring-With Revolution
Summary The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring deficit"--That there are simply too many demands on our time to care adequately for children, elderly people, and ourselves--she asks us to reconsider how we allocate care responsibilities. At the same time, while democratic politics should help citizens to care better, most people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as too remote from their lives to make a difference in this sphere. Tronto traces the reasons for this disconnect and argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life. -- Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed February 24, 2017)
Subject Caregivers.
Medical policy.
Social medicine.
Caregivers
Health Policy
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political ideologies -- Democracy.
Caregivers
Medical policy
Social medicine
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501702761
1501702769