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An A-Z of medical philosophy. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2013 Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) was a one man social revolution. He was a lawyer who sought to reform the penal code. He designed the first high surveillance jail. He founded University College London. He drafted the first new South American constitutions for his friend Simon Bolivar.
Misselbrook D.
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Towards Culture-Oriented Medical Philosophy, Education, Research and Practice. [PDF]
Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J, 2020 Medicine is a sociotechnical system wherein culture manifests itself in all its aspects. Culture, however, is often intangible and is frequently neglected in formal healthcare education, research and practice.
Al-Azri NH.
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Health lag: medical philosophy reflects on COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2020 In this paper, we reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic based on medical philosophy. A critical examination of the Corona crisis uncovers that in order to understand and explain the unpreparedness of the health systems, we need a new conceptual framework ...
Alireza Monajemi, Hamidreza Namazi
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Medical Education From a Theory–Practice–Philosophy Perspective
Academic Pathology, 2021 Medical schooling, at least as structured in the United States and Canada, is commonly assembled intuitively or empirically to meet concrete goals. Despite a long history of scholarship in educational theory to address how people learn, this is rarely ...
Susan A. Kirch PhD +1 more
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An A-Z of medical philosophy. Gender and ethics. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2013 Surely gender has nothing to do with morality? Well, perhaps it just might. All approaches to ethics make assumptions about what constitutes human nature and the human good. A conventional description of a mature ethical person would value ideals such as autonomy, rationality, and justice. The feminist ethicist Carol Gilligan in her book In a Different
Misselbrook D.
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An A-Z of medical philosophy: O is for ontology. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2014 OK, every tribe likes to reserve some language for its own use and polish up a few long words to keep the barbarians at bay. Philosophers are no different, but not as bad as medics. ‘Ontology’ is the study of what types or categories of things might reasonably be thought to exist in the world itself as opposed to just our imagined ways of thinking ...
Misselbrook D.
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Medical humanities and philosophy of medicine [PDF]
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2007 Over the past 30 years — starting in the United States — an interest in ‘medical humanities’ has emerged. In the same period modern ‘philosophy of medicine’ developed. Although the medical humanities are sometimes presented under the flag of medical philosophy, there are good reasons to consider these fields separately.
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The concept of vulnerability in medical ethics and philosophy
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2019 Background Healthcare is permeated by phenomena of vulnerability and their ethical significance. Nonetheless, application of this concept in healthcare ethics today is largely confined to clinical research.
Joachim Boldt
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Reflecting on philosophies of medical education science [PDF]
GMS Journal for Medical EducationScience is dependent on philosophy for many of its core concepts, for its ongoing development, and for the means to appraise what it does and what it produces.
Rachel Ellaway
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An A–Z of medical philosophy : Justice [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2013 Allocation of scarce healthcare resources is a hot issue. We all believe resources should be distributed justly, the trouble is no one seems quite sure what is just. Should resources be distributed according to need, according to a legal or regulatory entitlement or according to what a person has earned? And who should decide?
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