India’s economic growth story of the past two decades has a recurrent theme, accentuating insecurities for millions. Yet, there is deep divide over how to distribute fruits its growth. How best plough back gains achieve equality and social protection everyone? Despite status as middle-income country, close 350 million people live in absolute poverty. According an affidavit presented Supreme Cou...

The 2015 publication of Nick Sousanis’s graphic dissertation, Unflattening, opened doors for artist-scholars who challenge conventional research methodologies by producing dissertations, research, and comics-based publications in academic, scientific, medical journals. Unflattening came out one year after I began a PhD program cultural studies at the University California, Davis, with proposed ...

Empathy plays a critical interpersonal and societal role, enabling sharing of experiences, needs, and desires between individuals and providing an emotional bridge that promotes pro-social behavior. This capacity requires an exquisite interplay of neural networks and enables us to perceive the emotions of others, resonate with them emotionally and cognitively, to take in the perspective of othe...

Background: The recent scandals involving poor healthcare put nurses under the spotlight in an attempt to understand how compassionate they are towards their patients. The aim of this article is to investigate how compassion is embedded in the textbooks of the undergraduate mental health nursing degree. Methods: A snapshot review of key textbooks used, was conducted through the distribution of ...

Research suggests that being self-compassionate can have myriad benefits, including life satisfaction, health-promoting behaviours and improved mental health. Given the possible advantages of being self-compassionate, it seems critical to explore how to promote this in the general population. This qualitative study aimed to understand responses to the idea of being compassionate to oneself with...

BACKGROUND The topos of the Compassionate God is a dominant motive of the Jewish and Christian traditions. It is relevant for nursing because it asks the nurse to imitate God so as to become God-like. Also, to think that God suffers with the suffering believers is thought to give comfort to them. Because in the western world the topos of the Compassionate God represents the basis of the ethics ...

Compassionate capitalism combines the concepts of communism, which aimed for equitable distribution wealth, with principles work, opportunity, and just economic compensation. The socialist paradigms from Marx other contemporaries when seamlessly is merged “ Economic Individualism” Adam Smith its contemporaries, should lead to what can be called Capitalism. currently defined as “the equal access...

Antimicrobial resistance is considered to be one of the greatest challenges of medicine and our civilization. Lack of progress in developing new anti-bacterial agents has greatly revived interest in using phage therapy to combat antibiotic-resistant infections. Although a number of clinical trials are underway and more are planned, the realistic perspective of registration of phage preparations...

BACKGROUND During Summer 2005, the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center asked hospitals to hold rounds to discuss the topic, "What Makes for a Compassionate Patient-Caregiver Relationship?" Review of questionnaires and transcripts of the rounds held at 54 hospitals in 21 states yielded three major categories: communication, common ground, and respect for individuality. COMMUNICATION Suggestions to impr...

This article reports an exploratory study of the concept of compassion in the work of 20 mental health practitioners in a UK Midlands facility. Using notions of practice derived from phenomenology and Bourdieusian sociology and notions of emotional labour we identify two contrasting interpretive repertoires in discussions of compassion. The first, the practical compassion repertoire, evokes the...