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Of Learning Curves, Chess and the Art of Translation in Medical Ethics
Chin, Jacqueline Chuan Voo, Teck Peart, Nicola
Chin, Jacqueline
Chuan Voo, Teck
Peart, Nicola
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"Across Asia, the implementation of medical ethics teaching is gaining momentum. While many medical schools in developed countries within Europe, America and the Pacific Rim have formalised ethics teaching within the medical curriculum and developed staffing, core curricula and teaching materials relevant to their social and cultural contexts, Asian medical schools may best be described as being at the stage of “capacity-building”. Key research studies comprising “situation analyses” of the teaching needs of various Asian countries in the area of medical ethics have been undertaken in recent years (Miyasaka et al. 1999, Kasturiaratchi et al. 1999, de Castro et al. 2003).1 All have pointed to the urgency of implementing medical ethics teaching in view of social changes including flows of medical technology to the region, radical changes in macro-allocation policies, the promotion of market economies and globalisation which pose serious challenges to accepted principles of justice and respect for persons in medical practice worldwide. However, medical ethics is a complex creature; teaching needs vary from country to country, depending on differing social conditions and distinct histories which influence the way that ethics finds expression"
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