TY - BOOK
T1 - Medical Ethics Education: An Interdisciplinary and Social Theoretical Perspective
AU - Emmerich, Nathan
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - There is a diversity of ethical practices within medicine as an institutionalised profession as well as a need for ethical specialists both in practice as well as in institutionalised roles. This Brief offers a social perspective on medical ethics education. It discusses a range of concepts relevant to educational theory and thus provides a basic illumination of the subject. Recent research in the sociology of medical education and the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu are covered. In the end, the themes of Bourdieuan Social Theory, socio-cultural apprenticeships and the characterological turn in medical education are draw together the context of medical ethics education
AB - There is a diversity of ethical practices within medicine as an institutionalised profession as well as a need for ethical specialists both in practice as well as in institutionalised roles. This Brief offers a social perspective on medical ethics education. It discusses a range of concepts relevant to educational theory and thus provides a basic illumination of the subject. Recent research in the sociology of medical education and the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu are covered. In the end, the themes of Bourdieuan Social Theory, socio-cultural apprenticeships and the characterological turn in medical education are draw together the context of medical ethics education
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-00485-3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-00485-3
M3 - Book
SN - 9783319004846
VL - 22
T3 - SpringerBriefs in Ethics
BT - Medical Ethics Education: An Interdisciplinary and Social Theoretical Perspective
PB - Springer International Publishing
CY - Germany
ER -