Chapter 4 Compassion in primary and community healthcare

Compassion is an attribute of a person's affective understanding, which aims to enable, so far as possible, shared experiences of the world's ills and some alleviation of those ills' effects. Such an attribute is thus of great value within healthcare institutions such as general pract...

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Main Author: Hordern, Joshua (auth)
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2017
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