Should medical students read Plato?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 125-127

  Downie, Robin ^a   Macnaughton, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0033082916     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb127683.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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