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37The Medical Humanities Today: Humane Health Care or Tool of Governance? (review)Journal of Medical Humanities 29 (1): 1-4. 2008.The medical humanities have been presented as a panacea for medical reductionism; a means for ‘humanizing’ medicine. However, there is a lack of consensus about the appropriate contributing disciplines and how curricula should be taught and assessed. This special issue critically examines the role of the medical humanities in medical education and their potential to serve, inadvertently or otherwise, as a tool of governance. The contributors, who include medical educators and medical practitione…Read more
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19Ekmeleddin ihsanoğlu and feza günergun, science in islamic civilisation: Proceedings of the international symposia ‘science institutions in islamic civilisation’ and ‘science and technology in the turkish and islamic world’. Studies and sources on the history of science, 9. istanbul: Research centre for islamic history, art and culture 2000. Pp. VI+289. Isbn 92-9063-095-7. $40.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 35 (4): 475-485. 2002.
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4Things Come to Life: Spontaneous Generation Revisited (review)British Journal for the History of Science 37 (2): 224-225. 2004.
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10Henry Harris, things come to life: Spontaneous generation revisited. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2002. Pp. IX+168. Isbn 0-19-851538-3. 20.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 37 (2): 224-225. 2004.
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127Michael J. Sandel: The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (review)Medicine Studies 1 (2): 183-185. 2009.Michael J. Sandel: The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 183-185 DOI 10.1007/s12376-009-0018-4 Authors Ilhan Ilkilic, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Medical Center Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine Am Pulverturm 13 55131 Mainz Germany Rainer Brömer, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Medical Center Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine Am Pulverturm 13 55131 Mai…Read more
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33Toward an Aesthetic Medicine: Developing a Core Medical Humanities Undergraduate Curriculum (review)Journal of Medical Humanities 27 (4): 197-213. 2006.The medical humanities are often implemented in the undergraduate medicine curriculum through injection of discrete option courses as compensation for an overdose of science. The medical humanities may be reformulated as process and perspective, rather than content, where the curriculum is viewed as an aesthetic text and learning as aesthetic and ethical identity formation. This article suggests that a “humanities” perspective may be inherent to the life sciences required for study of medicine. …Read more