Deconstructing compassionate conservation

Promoting predators and compassionate conservation.

Deconstructing Community for Conservation: Why Simple Assumptions are Not Sufficient

Many conservation policies advocate engagement with local people, but conservation practice has sometimes been criticised for a simplistic understanding of communities and social context. To counter this, this paper explores social structuring and its influences on conservation-related behaviours at the site of a conservation intervention near Pipar forest, within the Seti Khola valley, Nepal. ...

Compassionate Care

What does Islam have to offer health-care ethics that cannot be found elsewhere? I do not mean to suggest that there is only one answer to this question, because there are many. However, I will focus on the elevated status of the patient as the recipient of compassionate care. Today, the primary medical ethical issue is no longer a quandary such as “Should we withdraw artificial nutrition and h...

Compassionate honesty.

Patients with cancer comprise 40%–100% of patients seen by those working in hospice and palliative medicine around the world. Consequently, the skills of oncologists in integrating palliative care and making appropriate referrals for hospice care have been a subject of intense interest since the inception of the field. Most are aware that oncologists routinely assist patients in making difficul...

Compassionate Conversations

Staff engagement is much more than just a bonus in any organisation. CQC data shows that it is very clearly linked to positive results in both patient and staff outcomes (fewer complaints, improved safety, reduced sickness, fewer accidents, and more as per Michael West). Staff engagement may seem nebulous but is in fact measured routinely annually in the National Staff Survey. The problem is th...