Why ‘cultures of care’?

Abstract

Also embedded in these institutional cultures were ideas about the responsibility for self-care, which often failed to recognise the impact of infrastructures of care on the "capacity to care" for the self (E. R. Power, [37]). Academic discussions of care have stressed the complexity of the concept of care (Fisher & Tronto, [13]), and the difficulty of defining care "needs" and "good care" (Engster, [11];Held, [20];J. Tronto, [55]). Caring for those who care: Towards a more expansive understanding of "cultures of care" in laboratory animal facilities. The Covid "lockdowns" impacted the informal "cultures of care" within families and communities through significant reductions in, or withdrawal of, services providing care or benefits enabling care, for (amongst others) children, people with learning difficulties and people with physical disabilities, or who are frail. [Extracted from the article]