Culturally Competent Compassion is essential reading for healthcare students and its combination of theoretical content and practice application provides a relevant and interesting learning experience. The innovative model for practice presented here will also be of interest to researchers exploring cultural competence and compassion in healthcare. -- From back cover.

My 25 year old journey of discovering cultural competence and compassion -- Philosophical roots of compassion -- Compassion and religious explanations -- Health and illness in multic -- Learning and practising culturally competent compassion -- Culturally competent and compassionate leadership -- Researching culturally competent compassion -- Measuring compassion -- Epilogue. From culturally competent and compassionate humans to culturally competent and compassionate robots.