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Applied Ethics · Chapter 6

The Care Chain

Joan Tronto broke caring into five phases — caring about, taking care of, care-giving, care-receiving and caring with — each carrying its own moral element. Pick a case, then switch any phase from held to failed and watch the chain break. The first break decides everything downstream, which is the whole point.

1 · Choose a case

2 · Set each phase: did it hold?

What happens

Diagnose a real failure