Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : medical uses of the humanities
  • Medicine and the humanities. Medical humanism and technologic anxiety
  • The most humane of the sciences, the most scientific of the humanities
  • Medicine, history, and the idea of man
  • Medicine, philosophy, and man's infirmity
  • Medicine and philosophy
  • Humanism and medical ethics. The Hippocratic ethic revisited
  • Humanistic basis of professional ethics
  • Humanism in medical experimentation
  • Hospitals as moral agents
  • Humanistic medical education. Educating the humanist physician
  • The ethics of medical education
  • University professions and technical expertise
  • Human values in medical education
  • Dimensions of the medical intellect
  • Epilogue : to be a physician.