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The need for teaching philosophy in medical education

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Spike

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
518 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
1573-1200

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✦ Synopsis

The dearth of philosophical contributions to medicine has recently been discussed in a series of articles in this journal. The present article focuses on physicians' lack of training in philosophy as a part of the explanation of the scarcity of works in philosophy of medicine. In section I I outline two philosophy courses which would be reasonable additions to the medical school curriculum required of all medical students. In section II I suggest two other philosophy courses as electives in a medical education. All four courses are in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics, and so will help others see the relevance to medicine of philosophical fields other than ethics.

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