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  title info:
    title: Empathy [
    sub title: from bench to bedside
  name:
    name part: Decety, Jean
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Massachusetts
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: c2012
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: electronic resources]
    extent: 1 online resources (ix, 324 p.) : ill
  abstract: There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help motivate positive social behavior, inhibit aggression, and provide the affective and motivational bases for moral development; it is a necessary component of psychotherapy and patient-physician interactions. This book covers a wide range of topics in empathy theory, research, and applications, helping to integrate perspectives as varied as anthropology and neuroscience. The contributors discuss the evolution of empathy within the mammalian brain and the development of empathy in infants and children; the relationships among empathy, social behavior, compassion, and altruism; the neural underpinnings of empathy; cognitive versus emotional empathy in clinical practice; and the cost of empathy. Taken together, the contributions broaden the interdisciplinary scope of empathy studies, reporting on the knowledge of the evolutionary, social, developmental, cognitive, and neurobiological aspects of empathy and linking this capacity to human communication, including in clinical practice and medical education.
  table of contents: 1. Philosophical and anthropological perspectives on empathy -- 2. The contribution of social psychology -- 3. Evolutionary roots of empathy -- 4. The development of empathy -- 5. The neuroscience of empathy and caring -- 6. Empathy in clinical practice
  note: edited by Jean Decety
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  subject:
    topic: Empathy
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  classification: BF575.E55 E47 2012
  identifier: 0262016613
  identifier: 0262298619 (e-book)
  identifier: 9780262016612
  identifier: 9780262298612 (e-book)
  record info:
    record creation date: 140102
    record change date: 20140402093000.0
    record identifier: 0000086033