Lost virtue [electronic resource] : professional character development in medical education / edited by Nuala Kenny, Wayne Shelton.
Series: Advances in bioethics ; v. 10Publication details: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 233 p.) : illISBN:- 9781849503396 (electronic bk.) :
- 1849503397 (electronic bk.) :
- 174.2/07 22
- R724 .L67 2006
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Lost virtue: professional character development and medical education / Nuala Kenny, Wayne Shelton -- Character formation and the making of good physicians / Edmund Pellegrino -- The ethical concept of medicine as a profession: its origins in modern medical ethics and implications for physicians / Laurence B. McCullough -- Character formation in professional education: a word of caution / Robert M. Veatch -- Evidence-based character development / Muriel J. Bebeau -- Disillusioned doctors / Carl Elliott -- Molding professional character / Rosamond Rhodes, Lawrence G. Smith -- Mindful practice and the tacit ethics of the moment / Ronald M. Epstein -- Learning and teaching in professional character development / Karen V. Mann -- The medical-social education compact and the medical learner / David J. Doukas -- Searching for doctor good: virtues for the twenty-first century / Nuala Kenny.
Discusses character formation, ethics, professional character, and other concepts and addresses the interpersonal aspects of physicians as well as the importance of character.
Description based on print version record.