Empathy in Patient Care: Antecedents, Development, Measurement, and Outcomes

by Mohammadreza Hojat

Human beings are designed by evolution to form meaningful interpersonal relationships through verbal and nonverbal communication. This principle is the same whether the individual is male or female; an infant, a child, an adolescent, or an adult; or healthy or sick. The theme that empathic human connections are beneficial to the body and mind underlies all 12 chapters of this book, in which empathy is viewed from a multidisciplinary perspective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387336079
• ISBN13: 9780387336077
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"