Title
Tenderness and Steadiness: Emotions in Medical Practice
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Insists on the need for both empathy and reason within medicine—a combination absent from Hemingway’s “Indian Camp.” Coulehan promotes “emotional resilience,” which strikes a crucial balance between objectivity and subjectivity needed by doctors in their relationships with patients.
Published in
Literature and Medicine
Volume
14
Issue
2
Date
1995
Pages
222-236
COinS
Citation
Coulehan, John L. “Tenderness and Steadiness: Emotions in Medical Practice.” Literature and Medicine 14, no. 2 (1995): 222-36.