Compassion and responsibility for disease: Trump, tragedy and mercy

Thinking about compassion helps to illuminate what is pernicious and beneficial about emphasizing personal responsibility for health. This article considers whether it is ‘compassionate’ to see someone’s disease as an embodiment of past faults. Two traditions, one Aristotelian-tragedic and the other...

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Autor principal: Hordern, J
Formato: Journal article
Publicado em: SAGE Publications 2018