On Principles of Medical-Humanitarian Education

Abstract

The article addresses the status of contemporary medical education. It is demonstrated that these days reductionism is predominant in biology and medicine influencing greatly medical education. An emergent need in holistic and integrative biomedicine is felt. The author introduces ideas of new medical-humanitarian education, discusses the principles of its organization.

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