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Title Empathy in health professions education and patient care / Mohammadreza Hojat.
Author Hojat, Mohammadreza, 1947- author.
Pub Info Cham : Springer, 2016.

Description 1 online resource
text
computer
online resource
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Access Available to OhioLINK libraries.
Summary Annotation This updated and expanded edition offers new findings and insights into this cornerstone of practice as well as effective tools for its clinical use. Spanning psychodynamic theory to neuroscience and evolution to medicine, the book defines empathy in the context of patient care, and both in its critical role as a human attribute and in its necessity in promoting change and healing.
Note Online version available through the library's subscription to SpringerLink.
Medical Subject Empathy
Attitude of Health Personnel
Patient Care -- psychology
Genre Electronic books
Add Author Ohio Library and Information Network.
SpringerLink (Online service).
Link SpringerLink (OCoLC)43927870
LINK Printed edition: 9783319276243
Link OhioLINK electronic book center (OCoLC)180989150
ISBN 3319276255 electronic bk.
9783319276250 electronic bk.
9783319276243
Standard # 10.1007/978-3-319-27625-0 doi
OCLC # 947837220
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