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ArticleAdvances in health sciences education : theory and practice2023

Empathy across cultures - one size does not fit all: from the ego-logical to the eco-logical of relational empathy.

Quentin Eichbaum, Charles-Antoine Barbeau-Meunier, Mary White, Revathi Ravi, Elizabeth Grant, Helen Riess, Alan Bleakley

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Article in Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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7 authors.

Quentin EichbaumDepartment of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Division of Medical Education and Administration, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, TVC 4511C, 1301 Medical Center Drive, TN37232, Nashville, TN, USA. quentin.eichbaum@vanderbilt.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3480-7892
Charles-Antoine Barbeau-MeunierUniversité de Sherbrooke, Montreal, Quebec, CA, Canada.
Mary WhiteBoonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Fairborn, OH, USA.
Revathi RaviMassachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Elizabeth GrantUniversity of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Helen RiessMassachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Alan BleakleyPlymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine, Plymouth, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Empathy is extolled in Western healthcare and medical education as an exemplary quality to cultivate in trainees and providers. Yet it remains an elusive and inadequately understood attribute. It posits a "one size fits all" unidimensional attribute applicable across contexts with scant attention given to its multifaceted dimensions in intercultural contexts. In this article, we uncloak the shortcomings of this conventional empathy in intercultural settings, and instead propound an expanded "relational empathy".

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Education, MedicalEmpathyEgoHumansCultural and epistemic humilityCultural competence and capabilityEmpathy disjunctionIntercultural empathyRelational empathy

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PMID36129550
PMCPMC9491267

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