Caring and mutual incidences.
An unavoidable ethical-political debate in the field of disability/mental health
Keywords:
cares, disability, recognition, responsibility, accompanimentAbstract
The article analyses the category of care in the field of disability/mental health. We draw on the contributions of critical social sciences to discuss certain meanings connected to the individual/domestic/rehabilitative approach, which leads to their familiarization/feminization. We pose some key questions for an ethical-political debate: who assumes the cares? What is caring? How we take care of others? We address these issues throughout the article, organizing three sections: the contribution of critical epistemologies in social sciences for understanding the social character of care; then, some conceptual clarifications that place care in the field of disability/mental health as an unavoidable ethical-political debate; finally, we propose three axes for a transformative social praxis of care: recognition, responsibility and accompaniment.