The other side of the mirror. Empathy and intersubjectivity in the clinical encounter
The ability of a doctor or a nurse to establish an empathic connection with the experience of another's suffering is a quality that is highly valued by patients. Following an approach anchored in the anthropology of experience that recovers the perspective of doctors and nurses from the public...
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/17725 |
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| Sumario: | The ability of a doctor or a nurse to establish an empathic connection with the experience of another's suffering is a quality that is highly valued by patients. Following an approach anchored in the anthropology of experience that recovers the perspective of doctors and nurses from the public health system of the department of Humahuaca (province of Jujuy, Argentina), the multiple factors that influence the establishment of this empathic connection in the clinical encounter are analyzed. It is concluded that the possibilities of such a connection are always uncertain and that they depend not only on a certain predisposition of the professional to understand the circumstances of the other but also on the social, cultural and political context that provides a framework for the relationship of intersubjectivity that develops in each clinical encounter, as well as the existential circumstances of the actors involved in it. |
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