Garden Rebecca
Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
J Med Humanit. 2010 Sep;31(3):223-42. doi: 10.1007/s10912-010-9115-3.
The nursing profession's emphasis on empathy as essential to nursing care may undermine nurses' power as a collective and detract from perceptions of nurses' analytical skills and expertise. The practice of empathy may also obscure and even compound patients' suffering when it does not fully account for their subjectivity. This essay examines the relation of empathy to women's agency and explores the role empathy plays in obscuring rather than empowering the suffering other, particularly people who are disabled, through a close reading of Edith Wharton's 1907 novel, The Fruit of the Tree, and through discussions of empathy and sympathy from literary and disability studies.
护理行业强调同理心是护理工作的核心要素，这可能会削弱护士作为一个群体的力量，并影响人们对护士分析能力和专业技能的认知。当同理心的实践没有充分考虑患者的主体性时，它也可能掩盖甚至加剧患者的痛苦。本文通过仔细研读伊迪丝·华顿1907年的小说《果树》，并结合文学研究和残疾研究中对同理心与同情心的探讨，分析了同理心与女性能动性之间的关系，探讨了同理心在掩盖而非赋予他人（尤其是残疾人）力量方面所起的作用。
