A Social Science of Caregiving

2024-02-26

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Recorded before a live audience, Margaret Levi, Alison Gopnik, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a CASBS project, "The Social Science of Caregiving," which is reimagining the philosophical, psychological, biological, political, & economic foundations of care and caregiving. The goal is a coherent empirical and theoretical account or synthesis of care that advances understandings and policy discussions. [The episode notes provide links for further exploration.]Article on CASBS's project on The Social Science of CaregivingWeb page for the project on...

Recorded before a live audience, Margaret Levi, Alison Gopnik, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a CASBS project, "The Social Science of Caregiving," which is reimagining the philosophical, psychological, biological, political, & economic foundations of care and caregiving. The goal is a coherent empirical and theoretical account or synthesis of care that advances understandings and policy discussions. [The episode notes provide links for further exploration.]

Article on CASBS's project on The Social Science of Caregiving

Web page for the project on The Social Science of Caregiving

Related: Human Centered episode #61, "Developing AI Like Raising Kids" (Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang)

Alison Gopnik: CASBS bio | UC Berkeley Bio |

Gopnik article, "Caregiving in Philosophy, Biology & Political Economy" (Dædalus)

Margaret Levi: CASBS bio | CASBS program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy |

Anne-Marie Slaughter: New America bio |

Slaughter articles, "Care is a Relationship" (Dædalus) | "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" (The Atlantic)

Slaughter book, Unfinished Business (Penguin Random House)

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University

Human Centered
Producer: Mike Gaetani | Audio engineer & co-producer: Joe Monzel |

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