Revisiting the need for virtue in medical practice: a reflection upon the teaching of Edmund Pellegrino
Abstract Edmund Pellegrino considered medicine as a skill, art, and perhaps most importantly, a moral enterprise. In this essay, I attempt to exemplify how the legacy and contributions of Edmund Pellegrino, as a teacher and a physician, could allow for a renaissance of medical practice in which phys...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13010-018-0057-0 |