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Breyer, Thiemo and Storms, Anna (2021). Empathy as a Desideratum in Health Care - Normative Claim or Professional Competence? Interdiscip. J. Relig. Transform. Contemp. Soc., 7 (2). S. 359 - 376. LEIDEN: BRILL. ISSN 2364-2807

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Abstract

This article investigates the possible functions of empathic interpersonal engagement in the context of medicine and health care. While empathy can be understood in different ways on a theoretical level - as an embodied process of resonance and synchronization, as an affective process of emotional sharing, as a cognitive process of understanding the other, or as a narrative process of externalizing and communicating personal experiences - it is often called for on a normative level as a desideratum in the competence of medical professionals. We address this issue by introducing different models of the relationality between doctors and patients, in order to clarify which dimensions of empathy are relevant in which model and raise the question whether empathy is more than a nice-to-have virtue on the side of the professionals.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Breyer, Thiemo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Storms, Anna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-563955
DOI:	10.30965/23642807-BJA10028
Journal or Publication Title:	Interdiscip. J. Relig. Transform. Contemp. Soc.
Volume:	7
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 359 - 376
Date:	2021
Publisher:	BRILL
Place of Publication:	LEIDEN
ISSN:	2364-2807
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PERCEPTION; BURNOUT; WORK Multiple languages Religion Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56395