Communities of Care

What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novelIn Communities of Care Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality Schaffer proposes a theory of communal care and a mode of critical reading centered on an ethics of care.In the Victorian era medical science offered little hope for cure of illness or disability and chronic invalidism and...See More