Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by subject "Empathy"
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Empathy and affect: what can empathied bodies do?
Published 2016-01-01While there has been much interest in the apparent benefits of empathy in improving outcomes of medical care, there is continuing concern over the philosophical nature of empathy. We suggest that part of the difficulty in ...Article -
Understanding empathy: why phenomenology and hermeneutics can help medical education and practice
Published 2015-03-01This article offers a critique and reformulation of the concept of empathy as it is currently used in the context of medicine and medical care. My argument is three pronged. First, that the instrumentalised notion of empathy ...Article