From detached concern to empathy: humanizing medical practice

Physicians recognise the importance of patients' emotions in healing, yet believe their own emotional responses represent lapses in objectivity. Patients complain that physicians are too detached. The book argues that by empathising with patients, rather than detaching, physicians can best help...

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1. Verfasser: Halpern, Jodi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford Oxford University Press c2001
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Zusammenfassung:Physicians recognise the importance of patients' emotions in healing, yet believe their own emotional responses represent lapses in objectivity. Patients complain that physicians are too detached. The book argues that by empathising with patients, rather than detaching, physicians can best help them. Yet there is no consistent view of what, precisely, clinical empathy involves. This book challenges the traditional assumption that empathy is either purely intellectual or an expression of sympathy
Beschreibung:xx, 165 p.
ISBN:9780190267728
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195111194.001.0001

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