Some time ago, I presented a paper on empathy at a review seminar. A colleague and fellow care ethicist asked me: ‘Why would one assume that empathy is of interest to the field of care ethics at all? Continue reading Care ethics and empathy: a complicated relationship
Does an immersion in a so called sTimul care ethics lab provide nursing students with insights into dimensions of empathy? Trees Coucke, participant of the research group Critical Ethics of Care, gives insight into her PhD research. Continue reading An immersion in a care ethics lab
To experience something profound and/or severe can change you and can influence how you act. This also applies to doctors and other professionals working in a hospital who suddenly become a patient due to illness or an accident. They end up in a position of being care dependent, with concomitant feelings of discomfort, anxiety and insecurity. Continue reading What if the doctor becomes the patient?
