Extending the Boundaries of Care

"A well written, engaging, and wonderful compilation of work." --Choice

"This book is not for the faint-hearted; readers can expect to be engaging not only with personal experience, but legal and philosophical argument combined with anthropological perspectives - a challenge to mind and practice." --Anthropology in Action

"This book is part of the excellent series on 'Cross-cultural perspectives on women' . . . This volume is a useful contribution to the ongoing debate on the best way to live with each other." --Nursing Ethics

"This is a well-organised, interesting publication for those interested in ethics, care and social research, both singularly and in combination." --Medical Sociology News

"This is a rich and insightful collection of essays that deserves to be widely read across a range of undergraduate and professional courses within the sociology of medicine, medical practice and nursing spheres." --Time & Society

"It was interesting to read a range of anthropologically inspired pieces by sociologists, anthroplogists, and lastly nurses...the volume....certainly does speak well-for care, the caring and the cared." --Social Anthropology

"A refreshing interdisciplinary approach ... engaging and thought-provoking. It is valuable for anyone interested in exploring the greater implications of what it means to care within the medical profession as well as how the term has been and should be defined, studied and applied." --American Ethnologist

"It is engaging, challenging, very thought provoking." --Family Practice

"A persuasive case for the relevance of contextual detail for the cultural study of moral relations." --Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute