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What philosophy should be thaught to the future medical professionals?
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| title: | What philosophy should be thaught to the future medical professionals? |
| author: | Zalewski Zbigniew 
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| journal title: | Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy |
| volume: | 3 |
| issue: | 2 |
| date of publication : | 2000 |
| pages: | 161-167 |
| ISSN: |
1386-7423 |
| eISSN: |
1572-8633 |
| DOI: | |
| language: | English |
| journal language: | English |
| abstract in English: | The presence of philosophy, amidst other humanities, within the body of medical education seems to raise no doubt nowadays. There are, however, some questions of a general nature to be discussed regarding the aforementioned fact. Three of them are of the greatest importance: (1) What image of medicine prevails in modern Western societies? (2) What ideals of medical professionals are commonly shared in these societies? (3) What is the intellectual background of the students of medico-related faculties? The real purposes and goals ascribed to philosophy as a part of medical curricula, as well as methods of teaching philosophy depend on the answers given to these questions. An option to be presented here is influenced by the experience of teaching philosophy to students of medical faculties at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. This approach is deliberately posed against mainstream medical education that is usually based on an unquestioned belief in the power of biomedical sciences. Such a model cannot, however, pretend to be a universal one to be implemented all over the world. In any case, it is the only thing a philosopher can do to improve the quality of a physician-patient encounter in facing a disease. |
| keywords in English: | biomedical paradigm, educational patterns, ideals of healthcare professionals, paradigm functions, role of philosophy |
| affiliation: | Wydział Nauk o Zdrowiu : Instytut Pielęgniarstwa i Położnictwa |
| type: | journal article |
| subtype: | academic paper |
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