Empathy and bioethics: the virtue of a clinician for better choices
In this article, the aspects of empathic foundations of moral choice are considered, with relation to clinical practice. A variety of psychological and philosophical views reviewed, with the aim to represent a problem of clinician attitudes towards patient and disease, in decision making and informing, especially, implicit attitudes. Emotional foundations of empathy and moral choice analyzed, by the works of contemporary and historical philosophers. Theory of mind and epistemological role of empathy considered, as well. The exploration provided in this article, has been done with the aim to give more humanistic insight into clinical practice.