Kerman University of Medical Sciences International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2322-5939 4 9 2015 09 01 Healthcare and Compassion: Towards an Awareness of Intersubjective Vulnerability; Comment on “Why and How Is Compassion Necessary to Provide Good Quality Healthcare?” 627 629 3044 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.115 EN Kate Kenny Queen’s University Management School, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK Journal Article 2015 05 27 How to instill compassion in a healthcare organization? In this article, I respond to Marianna Fotaki’s proposals in her piece, ‘Why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare?’ by drawing on insights from organization studies. Following Fotaki, I argue that to instill targets and formal measures for assessing compassion would be problematic. I conclude by drawing on psychoanalytic and feminist theories to introduce alternatives, specifically proposing an approach that is grounded in a shared sense of a common, embodied precarity, which necessitates our commitment to preserving the conditions in which life might flourish. https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3044_967d6da6b851aadc23d16825bac59689.pdf