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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SAGE Publications
2018
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