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• Title:From detached concern to empathy : humanizing medical practice / Jodi Halpern.
  
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• Author/Creator:Halpern, Jodi.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W62 .H346 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical personnel and patient.
  Medical personnel--Attitudes.
  Empathy.
  
• Medical Subjects: Physician-Patient Relations.
  Attitude of Health Personnel.
  Emotions.
  Empathy.
  
• Description:xx, 165 pages ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-161) and index.
  
• ISBN:0195111192 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Failures of Emotional Communication in Medical Practice
  2. Managing Emotions as a Professional Ideal
  Detachment to Avoid the Errors of Sympathy
  Tradition of Sympathy
  Ideal of Objectivity
  Avoiding Emotional Errors
  Emotions and Cognition
  3. Emotional Reasoning
  Associational Linking
  "Gut Feelings"
  Emotional Inertia
  Moods and Temperament
  Strategic Nature of Emotions
  4. Concept of Clinical Empathy
  Clinical Empathy as Detached Insight
  Aesthetics and the Origins of the Concept of Empathy
  Psychoanalytic Views of Empathy as Affective Merging
  Model of Clinical Empathy as Emotional Reasoning
  5. Respecting Patient Autonomy: From Non-Interference to Empathy
  Respecting Autonomy: Beyond Non-Interference
  Beyond Negative Autonomy: Kant on Deliberative Freedom
  Autonomy versus Detachment
  Suffering, Empathy, and the Interpersonal Basis of Autonomy
  Kantian Theory and Positive Obligations to Share Ends
  Complex Relationship Between Empathy and Respecting Autonomy
  6. Cultivating Empathy in Medical Practice
  From Certainty to Curiosity
  Emotional Irrationality Revisited: Finding the Therapeutic Opportunity
  Regaining Mental Freedom
  Non-Abandonment.