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Empathy in Healthcare: The Limits and Scope of Empathy in Public and Private Systems
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In this chapter we examine the two dominant healthcare models, public and private, and discuss the extent to which each model can promote empathetic care. We analyse the moral underpinnings of each model - solidarity and individualism - and examine different justifications for the provision of healthcare under each system. We argue that empathy exercised by the individual healthcare professional alone is not enough to ensure empathetic care overall. Rather, the healthcare system as a whole n...
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+ Feiler, T
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+ Hordern, J
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+ Papanikitas, A
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- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Series:
- Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
- Host title:
- Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare, Policy, Practice and Moral Formation
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-19
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974867
- ISBN:
- 9781315186351
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- 2019-02-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Kerasidou and Horn
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © 2018 The contributors. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Routledge at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315186351
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