Empathy-Based Ethics A Way to Practice Humane Medicine /

This book explores a new way of applying clinical ethics. Empathy-based ethics is based on the patient–doctor relationship and seeks to encourage a more humane form of medical practice. The author argues that the current emphasis on the biomedical model of medicine and a detached concern form of pro...

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Main Author: Jeffrey, David Ian (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter1:Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Medical Dehumanisation
  • Chapter 3: Empathy: A relational experience
  • Chapter 4: Relational virtues and empathy
  • Chapter 5 Experiencing empathy; the patient-doctor relationship
  • Chapter 6: Humanising medicine: the role of empathy
  • Chapter 7 Empathy-based ethics (EBE): developing a practical framework
  • Chapter 8: Empathy-based ethics in medical practice
  • Chapter 9: Embedding Empathy-based ethics into practice, education and research
  • Chapter 10: The future: empathy-based ethics (EBE) and humanising medicine.