Related work on care has branched off in a number of directions. The anthology Socializing Care builds on Joan Tronto’s 1993 call for a political theory that integrates the practice of care into the qualities needed for democratic citizens to live well together in a pluralistic society (Hamington and Miller 2006). Authors in this anthology stress power imbalances embedded in recent tendencies to privatize care, and the need for a public ethics of care. Others have applied care theory to nursing ethics (e.g., Kuhse 1997). Ruth Groenhout (2004) and Susan Dodds (2007) both develop versions of feminist bioethics that combine a care perspective with virtue theory. Both Groenhout and Dodds emphasize the holistic nature of human persons, their particular social contexts, the centrality of emotional responses in ethical reasoning, and the implausibility of judging actions separated from the lived narratives that confer meaning on them.  Groenhout draws examples from several fields including new reproductive technologies. She notes that adoption of care theory here would require consideration of many factors beyond the desires of particular patients, including costs and benefits to everyone affected by particular medical interventions, the impact of such services on other healthcare needs, and the risk that technology will intensify the commodification of children and the bodily functions of the women who bear them. Scully (2010a) has considered care in the context of disability, focusing on the hidden care labor that disabled people carry out for nondisabled people rather than the care that disabled people receive. In recent years several feminist bioethicists have been working to tease out the complex connections between central moral notions of care, dependence, independence, and autonomy. A particularly strong line of work here focuses on vulnerability as a concept within bioethics (Luna 2006, 2009; Rogers, Mackenzie and Dodds 2012). A special issue of IJFAB on vulnerability (volume 5, number 2, 2012) addressing a number of topics included a discussion of a global ethics approach to vulnerability, injection drug use, and the particular vulnerability of pregnant research subjects. A recent collection co-edited by Catriona Mackenzie, Rogers and Dodds (2014) has further pursued work on this theme.