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