Teaching medical ethics as a practical subject: observations from experience.
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Teaching medical ethics as a practical subject: observations from experience.
The author, head of a teaching hospital surgical unit, argues that the medical curriculum must ensure that all students are exposed to a minimum of ethical discussion and decision-making. In describing his own approach he emphasises the need to show students that it is 'an intensely practical subject'. Moreover, he reminds them that moral dilemmas in medicine--perhaps a better term than medical...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.9.1.5