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Beyond "Detached Concern": The Cognitive And Ethical Function Of Emotions In Medical Practice, Jodi Lauren Halpern
Beyond "Detached Concern": The Cognitive And Ethical Function Of Emotions In Medical Practice, Jodi Lauren Halpern
Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library
This dissertation analyzes the ideal of "detached concern" in medical practice. This ideal arises as an attempt to bridge the gap in medicine between managing diseases and recognizing patients "as persons." First, physicians take their emotions to interfere with making objective diagnoses and making every aspect of their practice "scientific." Second, physicians idealize detachment as the stance of the impartial moral agent who is able to care for all types of patients out of a sense of duty. Third, physicians also recognize the need to be empathic; however they conceive empathy as a purely cognitive capacity that is compatible with …
T Cell Responses To Ospa, A Candidate Lyme Disease Vaccine, Dee Dockery Iii
T Cell Responses To Ospa, A Candidate Lyme Disease Vaccine, Dee Dockery Iii
Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library
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Synaptic And Pathway Remodeling Of The Human Hippocampus In Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Matthew Frank Philips
Synaptic And Pathway Remodeling Of The Human Hippocampus In Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Matthew Frank Philips
Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library
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