The absence of compassion, argues the author, is not the cause of healthcare failures but rather a symptom of deeper systemic failures. The clinical encounter arouses strong emotions of anxiety, fear, and anger in patients which are often projected onto the clinicians. Attempts to protect clinicians through various bureaucratic devices and depersonalization of the patient, constitute as Menzies...

In recent years, Nigeria witnessed significant labour migration coupled with reduction in rural agricultural productivity. Youths abandoned farms for ventures with high returns and less drudgery in cities thus labour availability in peak agricultural seasons became scarce. The declining farm population constituting mostly women and old men are not capable of producing sufficient food for the no...

Introduction It is widely accepted that the performance of sex work involves both emotion work and emotional labour – the shaping of feelings, as well as their public management (for example, Chapkis, 1997; Sanders, 2004). However, whilst much is known about the feelings and experiences of female sex workers, very little is known about the experiences of their clients – the men who pay for sex....

  Healthcare professional education is the undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development for doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals. Labour economics is the relationship between workers and employers, and the resultant effect on employment and wages.   Healthcare professional education ultimately produces a workforce, and that workforce is governed by the rule...

Objective: There are major differences in neonatal and obstetrics outcomes of labour among different ethnicities. The present study compared the neonatal and obstetrics outcomes of labour between the Iranian and Afghan ethnicities. Methods: Neonatal and obstetrics problems were evaluated in Iranian and Afghan pregnant women, who had referred to Ar...

Changes to the labour process in home credit sector have exposed industry’s agency workforce increased levels of digital managerial control through introduction lending applications and algorithmic decision-making techniques. This article highlights heterogeneous nature impact digitalisation on worker autonomy – specifically, terms workers’ engagement unquantified emotional labour. By consideri...

Sydney is an Indigenous place – Country infused with stories and lore/Law. Yet as the original site of British colonisation in 1788, today also a deeply-colonised place. Long-held narratives colonial city have worked hard to erasure peoples’ presences silence this (Rey Harrison, 2018). In recent years, however, Indigenous-led tours on are emerging Greater region, whereby guides share visitors p...