In this topical study, scholars in anthropology, nursing theory, law and ethics explore questions involving the changing relationship between patient care and medical ethics.

Tamara Kohn Department of Anthropology,University of Durham Rosemary McKechnie Bath College of Higher Education

Introduction: Why Do We Care Who Cares?; Part 1: Embodying Care: Giving Voice to Experience; 1: Love, Care and Diagnosis; 2: Triplets: Who Cares?; Part 2: Controlling Care: Rights and Responsibilities; 3: Taking Care? The Depo-Provera Debate; 4: Medical Care as Human Right: The Negation of Law, Citizenship and Power?; Part 3: Framing Care: Alternative Visions in Dialogue; 5: Caring for the Well: Perspectives on Disease Prevention; 6: Identifying Boundaries in Care: Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Men Who Have Sex with Men; Part 4: Nursing Care: Theory and Practice; 7: Ethics as Question; 8: Relative Strangers: Caring for Patients as the Expression of Nurses' Moral/Political Voice