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Reconceiving vulnerabilities in relations of care how to account for and deal with carers’ vulnerabilities

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  • Habran, Yves
  • Küpers, Wendelin
  • Weber, Jean-Christophe

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While carers’ vulnerability has often been neglected in the literature, the recent COVID-19 pandemic brought this issue to the fore. This article explores why it has been so often ignored and how could it be dealt with differently. It does so in the form of a philosophical and conceptual investigation illustrated by various examples and situations, related primarily, but not exclusively, to the COVID period.

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  • Habran, Yves & Küpers, Wendelin & Weber, Jean-Christophe, 2024. "Reconceiving vulnerabilities in relations of care how to account for and deal with carers’ vulnerabilities," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 340(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:340:y:2024:i:c:s0277953623007451
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116388
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