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Author:   Jodi Halpern (Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.437kg
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9780195111194

ISBN 10:   0195111192
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   28 June 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Halpern's book is the result of many years of experience with patients...Her skillful interweaving of philosophical, medical, and psychological writings on emotion and empathy with descriptions of real-life cases results in a book that is unusually vivid, moving, and persuasive. --USA Academic Jodi Halpern presents a scholarly and cogent exposition of the philpsophic underpinnings of the concept of empathy. --JAMA.. .may be rightly viewed as a seminal work in developing a scholarly understanding of the subject of empathy and will assist in the development of sound training and evaluation methods for imparting this skill to physicians. --American Medical Association I would recommend this book not as a manual, but as a vital reminder of how things should be, and as an insightful and philosophically educational analysis of how things probably are for the luckiest patients in our practice and hospitals --Philip Berry in British Medical Journal This is a beautifully written and beautifully reasoned book. Physician-ethicist Jodi Halpern crafts on of the finest descriptions available of psychiatry's advance toward empathic involvement with patients. Intertwining psychiatry and ethics is no easy task. However, in Halpern's hands, a blend of formal research, philosophical modeling, and straight talk shows how neatly psychiatry and ethics work together. --Philip Candilis, M.D., in Psychiatric Services.. .this in an important book. I recommend it to physicians and members of medical faculties for whom its subject matter is important. It is a serious essay on subjectivity, a topic about which we will be seeing more in the coming years. It repays the work of reading it. --Eric Cassell, M.D., inThe New England Journal of Medicine Dr. Jodi Halpern has written a remarkable book articulating a view of clinical empathy that has practical and philosophical implications for all helping professionals, as well as for normative and relational ethics within the helping professionals. I believe that this book should be required reading for all practicing physicians, ethicists, nurses, social workers, other helping professionals, and students in these fields. Dr. Halpern powerfully illuminates a moral vision of helping that resists paternalism and unexamined emotional straitjackets that prevent professionals from seeing and responding skillfully to vulnerability and suffering. --Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics From Detached Concern to Empathy is a sophisticated, rigorous, and extremely well annotated defense of emotional realism in the patient-physician relationship. Bringing philosophy (both the analytic and continental traditions), psychoanalytic theory, and cultural criticism to the subject of emotion, Halpern's analysis is both encompassing and exact. Her demonstration of the impact of social forces, historical precedent, and economic factors on interpersonal dynamics within the structure of medicine, combined with an exploration of the underlying ideology recalls the richness and value of critical social theory. But more than a critical investigation, Halpern includes a positive project: physicians' development of empathic engagement with patients as a means to maintain humanity in medicine under the challenging organizational, political, and economic conditions physicians currently face. --Matthew Rottnek, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, APA Newsletter Halpern's book is the result of many years of experience with patients...Her skillful interweavign of philosophical, medical, and psychological writings on emotion and empathy with descriptions of real-life cases results in a book that is unusually vivid, moving, and persuasive. --USA Academic

Halpern's book is the result of many years of experience with patients...Her skillful interweaving of philosophical, medical, and psychological writings on emotion and empathy with descriptions of real-life cases results in a book that is unusually vivid, moving, and persuasive. --USA Academic Jodi Halpern presents a scholarly and cogent exposition of the philpsophic underpinnings of the concept of empathy. --JAMA.. .may be rightly viewed as a seminal work in developing a scholarly understanding of the subject of empathy and will assist in the development of sound training and evaluation methods for imparting this skill to physicians. --American Medical Association I would recommend this book not as a manual, but as a vital reminder of how things should be, and as an insightful and philosophically educational analysis of how things probably are for the luckiest patients in our practice and hospitals --Philip Berry in British Medical Journal This is a beautifully written and beautifully reasoned book. Physician-ethicist Jodi Halpern crafts on of the finest descriptions available of psychiatry's advance toward empathic involvement with patients. Intertwining psychiatry and ethics is no easy task. However, in Halpern's hands, a blend of formal research, philosophical modeling, and straight talk shows how neatly psychiatry and ethics work together. --Philip Candilis, M.D., in Psychiatric Services.. .this in an important book. I recommend it to physicians and members of medical faculties for whom its subject matter is important. It is a serious essay on subjectivity, a topic about which we will be seeing more in the coming years. It repays the work of reading it. --Eric Cassell, M.D., in The New England Journal of Medicine Dr. Jodi Halpern has written a remarkable book articulating a view of clinical empathy that has practical and philosophical implications for all helping professionals, as well as for normative and relational ethics within the helping professionals. I believe that this book should be required reading for all practicing physicians, ethicists, nurses, social workers, other helping professionals, and students in these fields. Dr. Halpern powerfully illuminates a moral vision of helping that resists paternalism and unexamined emotional straitjackets that prevent professionals from seeing and responding skillfully to vulnerability and suffering. --Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics From Detached Concern to Empathy is a sophisticated, rigorous, and extremely well annotated defense of emotional realism in the patient-physician relationship. Bringing philosophy (both the analytic and continental traditions), psychoanalytic theory, and cultural criticism to the subject of emotion, Halpern's analysis is both encompassing and exact. Her demonstration of the impact of social forces, historical precedent, and economic factors on interpersonal dynamics within the structure of medicine, combined with an exploration of the underlying ideology recalls the richness and value of critical social theory. But more than a critical investigation, Halpern includes a positive project: physicians' development of empathic engagement with patients as a means to maintain humanity in medicine under the challenging organizational, political, and economic conditions physicians currently face. --Matthew Rottnek, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, APA Newsletter Halpern's book is the result of many years of experience with patients...Her skillful interweavign of philosophical, medical, and psychological writings on emotion and empathy with descriptions of real-life cases results in a book that is unusually vivid, moving, and persuasive. --USA Academic

Halpern's book is the result of many years of experience with patients...Her skillful interweavign of philosophical, medical, and psychological writings on emotion and empathy with descriptions of real-life cases results in a book that is unusually vivid, moving, and persuasive. --USA Academic<br>

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Jodi Halpern, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanitites at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her B.A., M.D. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University, did an internship at the UCLA/Wadsworth VA Medical Centers, and completed a residency in psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She won the Louis Nahum Prize for her medical school thesis, and her Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Porter Prize, which is given to the outstanding dissertation at Yale of general interest across the disciplines.

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