Jodi Halpern

From Detached Concern to Empathy

Humanizing Medical Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780199768707
• ISBN-10: 0199768706
• Artikelnr.: 33127922

Autorenporträt

Jodi Halpern, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her B.A., M.D., and Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University, did an internship at the UCLA/ Wadsworth VA Medical Centers, and completed a residency in psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She won the Louis Nahum Prize for her medical school thesis, and her Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Porter Prize, which is given to the outstanding dissertation at Yale of general interest across the disciplines.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Failures of Emotional Communication
2 Mangaing Emotions as a Professional Ideal
3 Emotional Reasoning
4 The Concept of Clinical Empathy
5 Respecting Patient Autonomy
6 Cultivating Empathy in Medical Practice
Bibliography
Index