This review focuses on the concept of care, a concept that has never been more popular as a focus of study. It undertakes a critical review, motivated by the breadth of the field and the lack of coherence and linkages across a diverse literature. The review concentrates first on organizing and reviewing the literature in terms of key focus and, second, drawing out the strengths and weaknesses of existing work and making suggestions for how future work might proceed in COVID-19 times. While the existing literature offers many insights, some quite basic things need to be reconsidered, not least definition and conceptualization. Defining care as based on the meeting of perceived welfare-related need, I develop it as comprising need, relations/actors, resources and ideas and values. Each of these dimensions has an inherent disposition towards the study of inequality and it is possible, either by looking at them individually or all together, to identify care as situated in relations of relative power and inequality. The framework allows a set of critical questions to be posed in relation to COVID-19 and the policies and resources that have been mustered in response.

这篇评论集中在护理的概念上，这个概念从未作为研究的重点而流行。由于该领域的广度以及各种文学之间缺乏连贯性和联系，因此对它进行了严格的审查。审查首先集中于组织和审查有关重点的文献，其次，列出现有工作的优缺点，并就COVID-19时代的未来工作提出建议。尽管现有文献提供了许多见解，但仍需要重新考虑一些非常基本的内容，尤其是定义和概念化。根据满足与福利相关的感知的需求来定义护理，我将其发展为包括需求，关系/角色，资源以及思想和价值观。这些维度中的每一个都有对不平等现象研究的固有倾向，可以通过单独或一起研究它们来确定护理处于相对权力和不平等关系中。该框架允许提出一系列与COVID-19有关的关键问题，并提出了相应的政策和资源。