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The first chapter of Dornan’s book focuses on morality and ethics and medical education. I struggled with it as it was bringing a lot of different overlapping and disparate concepts related to the philosophy of medical education without much structure. To my mind, I think it may have been better with some skeleton to help […]
Read More Morality, ethics and philosophy in the med ed contextSource Onora O’Neill, Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics, 2002 – Chapter 2: Autonomy, individuality and consent What did I learn from this material? That individual autonomy (IA) has become a key concept in medical ethics. It appears this is through the influence of Thomas Beauchamp and James Childress, and their book Principles of Biomedical Ethics. That […]
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