The Empathic Practitioner

by More, Ellen Singer; Milligan, Maureen A.

• ISBN13: 9780813521190
• ISBN10: 081352119X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-12-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
"Empathy" Enters the Profession of Medicine	p. 19
The Gendering of Emphatic Expertise: How Women Physicians Became More Empathic than Men	p. 40
Moral Sensibility and Medical Science: Gender, Animal Experimentation, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship	p. 59
"I Know Just How You Feel": Empathy and the Problem of Epistemic Authority	p. 77
Is Empathy Always "Nice"?: Empathy, Sympathy, and the Psychoanalytic Situation	p. 98
Gender Differences in Relational Development: Implications for Empathy in the Doctor-Patient Relationship	p. 113
Reconsidering Power in the Clinical Relationship	p. 135
Novelist and Character, Doctor and Patient: The Professional Understanding of Other People's Lives	p. 157
Listening, Empathy, and Clinical Practice	p. 171
Health Care: Is Society Empathic with Women?	p. 189
Women Readers, Women Doctors: A Feminist Reader-Response Theory for Medicine	p. 205
To Have a Heritage Unique in the Ages: Voices of African American Female Healers	p. 222
Special Needs and Affinities of Women Medical Students	p. 237
Notes on Contributors	p. 251
Index	p. 257
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