Joshua Hordern is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. He leads the Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership which conducts collaborative work in healthcare. He has worked closely for over a decade with healthcare colleagues and patients in hospital settings, primary care, professional organisations, medical education, and precision medicine.

• Introduction 1: What's wrong with 'compassion'? 2: Compassion and peregrinatio 3: Compassion's nature 4: Compassion in civic life 5: Compassion and time 6: Compassion and responsibility 7: Compassion in healthcare policy and practice Epilogue: Compassion, old age and civic life

...this is a book steeped in theology and practice - and one that seriously recommends itself to both medical and theological, but also civic, thinkers and practitioners.

Joshua Hordern is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. He leads the Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership which conducts collaborative work in healthcare. He has worked closely for over a decade with healthcare colleagues and patients in hospital settings, primary care, professional organisations, medical education, and precision medicine.

• Introduction 1: What's wrong with 'compassion'? 2: Compassion and peregrinatio 3: Compassion's nature 4: Compassion in civic life 5: Compassion and time 6: Compassion and responsibility 7: Compassion in healthcare policy and practice Epilogue: Compassion, old age and civic life

...this is a book steeped in theology and practice - and one that seriously recommends itself to both medical and theological, but also civic, thinkers and practitioners.

Joshua Hordern is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. He leads the Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership which conducts collaborative work in healthcare. He has worked closely for over a decade with healthcare colleagues and patients in hospital settings, primary care, professional organisations, medical education, and precision medicine.

• Introduction 1: What's wrong with 'compassion'? 2: Compassion and peregrinatio 3: Compassion's nature 4: Compassion in civic life 5: Compassion and time 6: Compassion and responsibility 7: Compassion in healthcare policy and practice Epilogue: Compassion, old age and civic life

...this is a book steeped in theology and practice - and one that seriously recommends itself to both medical and theological, but also civic, thinkers and practitioners.