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Caring, Social Policy, and Homelessness

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Care theory offers a way to overcome a weaknessof liberalism – its reluctance to intervene inthe private lives of adults. In caring for thehomeless, we must sometimes use a limited formof coercion, but our intervention is alwaysinteractive, and the process of finding asolution is one of negotiation between theneeds expressed by the homeless and the needswe infer for them.

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Noddings, N. Caring, Social Policy, and Homelessness. Theor Med Bioeth 23, 441–454 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021385717732

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