Online booklaunch of the recently published book Relational Caring and Presence Theory in Health Care and Social Work: A Care-Ethical Perspective, elaborating the thesis that no form of care, help, or support can do without a relational core, with the risk that seekers of help feel abandoned.

It is precisely this experience of not being included that fuels discontent worldwide. And not being allowed to practise relational caring is conducive to satisfaction fatigue and burnout of professionals.

The online booklaunch of Relational Caring and Presence Theory in Health Care and Social Work: A Care-Ethical Perspective by authors Andries Baart and Guus Timmerman, with a response by Maurice Hamington, organised by the Care Ethics Research Consortium during the CERC Conference 2025, will take place on Friday 31st January 17:00 – 18:00 CET see here

Open Access until March 3rd 2025

The Preface is Open Access.

Until Monday 3rd March Chapter 9 will also be temporarily freely available on the website of the publisher Bristol University Press/Policy Press. The authors consider this chapter to be the source out of which all of the book has originated.