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This book represents a unique indispensable reflection on the interconnection between ethics and empathy. To what extent is it right to be empathetic? Can empathy be unethical? Or is there an ethical obligation to be empathetic? Do we educate our citizens and train our professionals to use the right form of empathy? Phenomenological ethics is a relatively new approach to ethics whose emphasis is put on the description of the lived-experience and the ethical phenomenon. The book is organized into three thematic sections: A) the main protagonists on the topic, B) the application of the results in psychology and health care, and C) further exploration of the topic in the arts. Each section will put an emphasis on one of the specific aspects of the interconnection between ethics and empathy. The authors offer a phenomenological description of the thorny problem pertaining to the interconnection of empathy and ethics essential for professionals and scholars of different fields, such as philosophy, psychiatry, health science, psychology, and sociology.

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Empathy and Ethics is an impressive, timely, and original contribution. The explication of the connection between empathy and ethics is almost absent in contemporary literature, making the volume a novel contribution that should be of interest for a wide range of disciplines. The contributor list is impressive, including some top researchers in their respective fields, and the abstracts jointly indicate a comprehensive and balanced set of contributions that are both well connected and cover a lot of different ground. --Mads Gram Henriksen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Empathy and Ethics is an impressive, timely, and original contribution. The explication of the connection between empathy and ethics is almost absent in contemporary literature, making the volume a novel contribution that should be of interest for a wide range of disciplines. The contributor list is impressive, including some top researchers in their respective fields, and the abstracts jointly indicate a comprehensive and balanced set of contributions that are both well connected and cover a lot of different ground.--Mads Gram Henriksen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Ethics and Empathy is an impressive, timely, and original contribution. The explication of the connection between empathy and ethics is almost absent in contemporary literature, making the volume a novel contribution that should be of interest for a wide range of disciplines. The author list is impressive, including some top researchers in their respective fields, and the abstracts jointly indicate a comprehensive and balanced set of contributions that are both well connected and cover a lot of different ground.--Mads Gram Henrikson, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Empathy and Ethics is an impressive, timely, and original contribution. The explication of the connection between empathy and ethics is almost absent in contemporary literature, making the volume a novel contribution that should be of interest for a wide range of disciplines. The contributor list is impressive, including some top researchers in their respective fields, and the abstracts jointly indicate a comprehensive and balanced set of contributions that are both well connected and cover a lot of different ground.

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Magnus Englander is phenomenological psychologist and associate professor at the Faculty of Health & Society at Malmö University. His research is situated within the interdisciplinary research context on the topic of health and society. Englander’s phenomenological research covers interdisciplinary perspectives such as social psychology, social psychiatry, and social cognition. He served for five years as the book review editor of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology and is the author of multiple articles on phenomenological psychology. He is the volume editor of Phenomenology and the Social Context of Psychiatry. Susi Ferrarello is assistant professor at California State University, East Bay. She writes for Psychology Today. Among her publications there are novels, poetry, and academic books on philosophy, including Bioethics and Emotions, Phenomenology of Sex, Love, and Intimacy, The Ethics of Lived Experience: A Phenomenology and Husserl’s Ethics and Practical Intentionality.

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