On the Varieties of Empathic Experience: Tactility, Mental Opacity, and Pain in Yap

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 408-430

  Throop, C Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Intersubjectivity; Oceania; Pain; Phenomenology; Sensorial anthropology; Tactility; Yap

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TOUCH; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; OCEANIA; PAIN; TOUCH;

EID: 84867687288     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2012.01225.x     Document Type: Article

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