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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 …
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Commitee Newsletter, Fall 1993
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Commitee Newsletter, Fall 1993
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1993
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1993
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1993
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1993
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1993
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1993
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.