1. The Folded Timescapes of Maternal Care

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Care: Fourteen Axioms vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: Why Care? 1
6. Part I: Next of Kin
7. 1. The Folded Timescapes of Maternal Care 43
8. 2. The Elongated Timescapes of Sibling Care 74
9. 3. Lateral Kinship and the Borrowed Time of HIV/AIDS 109
10. 4. Slow Emergencies and the Care-To-Come: Dementia in the Family 137
11. Part II: The Subjects of Care
12. 5. Writing on Crip Time: Our Dependent Bodies, Our Interdependent Selves 169
13. Part III: Professing Care
14. 6. Theory of Minds: The Irreconcilable Temporalities of Paying for Care and Caring for Work 201
15. 7. Committed: Asylum as Care and Its Opposite 235
16. Caring Machines, an Epilogue 283
17. Notes 297
18. Bibliography 327
19. Index 345