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Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care

In this thorough revision, updating, and expansion of his great 2007 book, Empathy in Patient Care, Professor Hojat offers all of us in healthcare education an uplifting magnum opus that is sure to greatly enhance how we conceptualize, measure, and teach the central professional virtue of empathy. H...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hojat, Mohammadreza (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Empathy in Human Relationships
  • Descriptions and Conceptualization
  • Human Connection in Health and Illness
  • An Evolutionary Perspective, Sociophysiology, and Heritability
  • Psychodynamics and Development
  • Measurement of Empathy in the General Population
  • Part II. Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care
  • A Definition and Key Features of Empathy in Patient Care
  • The Jefferson Scale of Empathy
  • The Interpersonal Dynamics in Clinician-Patient Relationships.-Empathy as Related to Personal Qualities, Career Choice
  • Empathy and Gender: Are Men and Women Complementary
  • Empathy and Patient Outcomes
  • Erosion and Enhancement of Empathy
  • In Search of Neurological Underpinnings of Empathy
  • Parting Thoughts: A Systemic Paradigm of Empathy and Future Directions
  • Concluding Remarks.