Issues in the study of medical ethics.
In a discussion of the study of medical ethics, there are three main questions: (a) What is medical ethics--a topic of research, a subject of instruction or a field of science? (b) Who should teach it? (c) How should it be taught? I would like to answer these three questions by reporting on the work plans and models of the Unit for Medical Ethics at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. To do so, it is necessary to say a few words about the development of medical ethics in the former GDR and about the foundation of our unit.
Department of Medicine, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
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D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D010819:Physician's Role