Overview
Develops a new way of exploring clinical ethics
Suggests how empathy-based ethics can be embedded in clinical practice, medical education, and research
Redresses the current imbalance between biomedical and psychosocial approaches to medicine
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 professionalism have damaged the patient–doctor relationship. He investigates examples of the dehumanization of patients and demonstrates a contrasting view of humane care. The book presents empathy as a relational construct - it provides an in-depth analysis of the process of empathizing. It discusses an empathy-based ethics approach underpinned by clinical examples of the practical application of this new approach. It suggests how empathy-based ethics can be embedded in clinical practice, medical education and research. The book concludes by examining the challenges in implementing such an approach and looks to a future which redresses the current imbalance between biomedical and psychosocial approaches to medicine.
Reviews
- Kathryn MacKay, Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney, Australia
“Health Care needs to foster the 'feeling-better-factor' that patients experience simply when they see the doctor or other health professional. This can only be done through the doctor-patient relationship. This book is essential reading for all healthcare professionals, especially doctors.”- Pierre Mallia, Professor of Family Medicine and Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine & Surgery, University of Malta, Malta
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Ian Jeffrey is an Honorary Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His former posts include Academic Mentor at the Medical School, Dundee University, Consultant in Palliative Medicine for the Three Counties Cancer Centre Cheltenham and General Practitioner in Evesham, UK. He is the author of Exploring Empathy with Medical Students (2019). He is a Winston Churchill Fellow.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Empathy-Based Ethics
Book Subtitle: A Way to Practice Humane Medicine
Authors: David Ian Jeffrey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64804-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64803-9Published: 06 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64804-6Published: 05 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 150
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Mind, Clinical Psychology