Teaching Ethics Within the Medical Curriculum

Abstract

Editor's introduction: The analysis of health care is now taught across the globe, but it is by no means a clearly defined activity. The teaching of analytical skills to health workers takes many different forms, and is done in widely divergent institutions and cultures. There has been a rapid rise in interest in courses on ethics aimed at practising health carers. The content of these courses is far from uniform, ranging from studies in 'philosophical medical ethics' based on conventional philosophical texts, to courses which explicitly challenge the