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From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice, by Jodi Halpern. London: Oxford University Press, 2001. 165 pp. $37.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2003

Patricia Benner
Affiliation:
School of Nursing, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the University of California, San Francisco

Extract

Dr. Jodi Halpern has written a remarkable book articulating a view of clinical empathy that has practical and philosophical implications for all helping professionals, as well as for normative and relational ethics within the helping professions. Dr. Halpern first carefully deconstructs a detached insight view of empathy (an intellectualist view) and empathy as sympathetic merger between two persons.

Type
CQ REVIEW
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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