Slow Syllabus

Week 14 of 16

Care, Dependency, and Dying

Vulnerability at the End of Life

Would you rather give care or receive it? Why?

Arthur Kleinman’s The Soul of Care chronicles his experience caring for his wife through her illness. What does caregiving teach about dependency and dignity?

Eva Feder Kittay’s Love’s Labor reframes dependency as constitutive of human life rather than deficit. What would a politics of care look like?

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What does caregiving teach about dependency and dignity? How does Kittay reframe dependency as constitutive of human life?