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The ethical imperative of medical humanities.
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PMID:  20635126     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Medical humanities purchases its presence on the medical side of university campuses by adopting as its own the ends of medicine and medical ethics. It even justifies its presence by asserting promotion of those ends as an ethical imperative, most of all to improve the caring in medical care. As unobjectionable, even praiseworthy, as this imperative appears, it actually constrains the possibilities for interpersonal relationship in the context of medical practice. Development of those possibilities requires openness of self to the existentially challenging ethical imperative to care also literally for nothing at all.
Authors:
Geoffrey Rees
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of medical humanities     Volume:  31     ISSN:  1573-3645     ISO Abbreviation:  J Med Humanit     Publication Date:  2010 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-09-24     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8917478     Medline TA:  J Med Humanit     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  267-77     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values, Rush University, 5339 South Cornell Avenue #2, Chicago, IL 60615, USA. rees.geoffrey@gmail.com
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