Compassion in primary and community healthcare

Compassion is an attribute of a person’s affective understanding which seeks shared experience of the world’s ills and some alleviation of those ills’ effects. Compassion is cognitive, participative and alleviative. Compassion alleviates suffering by participating in it. Compassion’s cognitive conte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hordern, J
Other Authors: Papanikitas, A
Format: Book section
Published: Taylor and Francis (CRC Press) 2017