Normative Role for Medical Humanities (Correspondence)

Faunce, Thomas

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Normative Role for Medical Humanities (Correspondence)

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2003

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Faunce, Thomas

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Lancet Publishing Group

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Sir—Several recent papers, including a Commentary in this journal, have attempted to set out a vision of the aims of medical humanities in medical education. Leaders in this fledgling specialty have been cautioned against becoming elitist and exclusionary. In this debate, however, one important theoretical contribution seems to have been overlooked.

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medical, humanities, normative, role, education

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