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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Biehl, João Guilherme, interviewee. | Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970- interviewee. | Stevenson, Lisa, interviewee. | Levy, Aaron, 1977- interviewer, editor.
Title: On listening as a form of care / with João Biehl, Kristen Ghodsee, and Lisa Stevenson; edited by Aaron Levy.
Description: Philadelphia : Slought Foundation and Health Ecologies Lab, 2020.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019050555 (print) | LCCN 2019050556 (ebook) | ISBN 9781936994076 (paperback) | ISBN 9781936994083 (ebook)
Classification: LCC BF323.L5 O54 2020 (print) | LCC BF323.L5 (ebook) |
DDC 302.2/242—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019050555
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019050556
Contents
Introduction
Aaron Levy
Chapter 1:
Anonymous Care
Lisa Stevenson
Chapter 2:
Folded into Lives
João Biehl and
Kristen Ghodsee
Contributors
“The collapse of social compacts and values has produced an equally radical awareness of mutual interconnectedness with environments, nature, and people. Care is the name for this exposure.”
— Michael Stone Richards, Philosopher
“The rhetorics of health and illness become effective ways of policing the boundaries of civil society, and of keeping people always outside.”
— Jonathan M. Metzl, Psychiatrist