TY - JOUR
T1 - Empathy in PhD students in bioethics
T2 - a qualitative phenomenological study
AU - García Uribe, John Camilo
AU - Villalobos Cruz, Víctor Alfonso
AU - Vargas Ovalle, José Luis
AU - Niño Tovar, María Azucena
AU - Barrios Nassi, Jaime
AU - Morales García, Leydi Yohanna
AU - Pedraza Galvis, Margarita Del Pilar
AU - Henao, Paula Andrea Gómez
AU - Quisoboni, Arley Londoño
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2025/1/1
Y1 - 2025/1/1
N2 - Empathy is one of the most relevant themes in contemporary discussions about ethics and bioethics. This feeling is cultivated by biographical experiences that help us to understand the vulnerability and mortality that defines us as human beings. An exploratory qualitative study was conducted, with a phenomenological focus, to understand the experiences and meanings of empathy and its relationship with bioethics from the perspective of a group of PhD students in bioethics. The results were grouped into three thematic categories: pity; experiences about empathy; and empathy and bioethics. Empathy is described as a virtue in Aristotelian terms. It concludes that empathy is fundamental to bioethics and is not just an emotional response or a guiding principle, but an action to make the world a fairer and better place to live.
AB - Empathy is one of the most relevant themes in contemporary discussions about ethics and bioethics. This feeling is cultivated by biographical experiences that help us to understand the vulnerability and mortality that defines us as human beings. An exploratory qualitative study was conducted, with a phenomenological focus, to understand the experiences and meanings of empathy and its relationship with bioethics from the perspective of a group of PhD students in bioethics. The results were grouped into three thematic categories: pity; experiences about empathy; and empathy and bioethics. Empathy is described as a virtue in Aristotelian terms. It concludes that empathy is fundamental to bioethics and is not just an emotional response or a guiding principle, but an action to make the world a fairer and better place to live.
KW - Bioethics
KW - Education
KW - Emotio
KW - Empathy
KW - Social Values
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105009505797
U2 - 10.1590/1983-803420253824en
DO - 10.1590/1983-803420253824en
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105009505797
SN - 1983-8042
VL - 33
JO - Revista Bioetica
JF - Revista Bioetica
M1 - e3824EN
ER -
