Caring and the Law
Caring and the Law by Jonathan Herring, published by Bloomsbury Academic on April 12, 2013, is a comprehensive examination of the law’s interaction with the concept of care. This UK edition spans 374 pages and is presented in English. The book delves into how care is valued, regulated, and recognized within various legal frameworks, including family, medical, welfare, criminal, and tort law.
Readers will find a critical analysis of the law’s shortcomings in acknowledging the significance of caring, particularly how these failures disproportionately affect those who provide care, often women. The text argues that the legal system has not adequately protected care recipients from potential abuse and advocates for an ethic of care as a necessary framework for improving legal responses to caring relationships. This exploration invites readers to reflect on the intersection of law and care, highlighting the need for reform in how these areas are addressed.
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‘Caring and the Law’ considers the law’s response to caring. It explores how care is valued and recognised, how it is regulated and restricted and how the values of caring are reflected in the law. It does this by examining the law’s interaction with caring in a wide range of fields including family, medical, welfare, criminal and tort law. At the heart of the book is the claim that the law has failed to recognise the importance of caring in many areas and in doing so has led to the costs and burdens of care falling on those who provide it, primarily women. It has also meant that the law has failed to protect those who receive care from the abuse that can take place in a caring context. The book promotes an ethic of care as providing an ethical and conceptual framework for the law to respond to caring relationships.
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