Compassion in healthcare: Exploring and sustaining compassionate practice in healthcare (Conference,  Posted onApril 17, 2013by Centre for Medical Humanities Compassion in healthcare: Exploring and sustaining compassionate practice in he…

Social media often has a bad reputation when it comes to promoting friendship, compassion, and concern. But can texting build a sense of empathy with others?It’s an important question, argues Sara Konrath, assistant professor at the Indiana …

This is unlike the research conducted by the Monash neuroscientists who discovered the correlation between brain structure and empathy.They have hypothesised that we are able to alter this part of our brain, making it bigger or smal…

Ignoring the issue hasn’t worked. Neither have calls for empathy. To improve policing, we must confront it head on.

It’s hard to talk about race in America. This much we know.

A common request is for empathy, to imagine whether these unspeakable acts  — such as the killings of Tamir Rice, Eric Garner or Freddie Gray  —  happened to your brother or sister, but clearly that doesn’t work. The longer we talk around the margins of what really needs to be said, the longer it will take to heal..

When black people try to initiate a conversation, such as with the Black Lives Matter movement, it’s resisted by the very people who need to be listening. Diversion tactics are deployed, meant only to further marginalize the validity of black pain.

Empathy is a prerequisite for this country to heal. Without it, we will find ourselves right back here in no time.

 Andy Newman