1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002303740403321

Titolo

Drug utilization strategies within regional programs on drug control and evaluation.Oxford, 1979, v. 6, p. 101-112

Altri autori (Persone)

Tognoni, G.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132558103321

Autore

Fainzang Sylvie <1954->

Titolo

Anthropology and medicine : empathy, experience and knowledge / / Sylvie Fainzang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicoutimi : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2009

ISBN

1-4123-6993-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Classiques des sciences sociales ; ; 3794

Disciplina

616.0019

Soggetti

Medicine and psychology

Sick - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Empathy in the doctor-patient relationship -- Empathy in the anthropological field -- Empathy and experience -- Empathy and knowledge -- To conclude -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

Even though the issue of empathy is widely debated in disciplines such as ethnology and medicine, ethnologists' relationship with their informants cannot be likened to that of doctors and their patients. Likewise, the empathic dimension, considered to characterize the relationship in both cases, is not the same. In this article examples drawn from various case studies are used in a cross-cutting analysis of the nature and role of empathy in the contexts of medical and



ethnological relationships. The part that empathy plays in the production of knowledge, in both types of relationship, is evaluated. What are the implications of empathy as regards the medical doctor's work and that of the ethnologist, and what is its heuristic value? In other words, what link is there between empathy and the knowledge production process? I show that even though empathy may be useful in both types of situation, ethnologists can derive a benefit from it only if, unlike doctors, they are able to control it and to distance themselves from it.