Portrayal of negative qualities in a doctor as a potential teaching tool in medical ethics and humanism: Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 964, 2006, Pages 154-159

  Wolf, G ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; LITERATURE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; STANDARD; TEACHING;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANISM; HUMANS; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIANS; TEACHING;

EID: 33144464771     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2005.041186     Document Type: Review

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