Lessons learned from ignorance : the curriculum on medical (and other) ignorance

The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 251-272

  Witte, Marlys Hearst ^a   Crown, Peter ^a   Bernas, Michael ^a   Witte, Charles L ^a  

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References (45)

1. J. Hunter quoted in J. Kobler, The Reluctant Surgeon: A Biography of John Hunter (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960), 108.
2. M. H. Witte, A. Kerwin, and C. L. Witte, "Curriculum on Medical and Other Ignorance: Shifting Paradigms on Learning and Discovery," in Memory Distortions and Their Prevention, ed. M. J. Intons-Peterson and D. L. Best (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998), 127-59.
3. A. Kerwin, "None Too Solid, Medical Ignorance," Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilizations 15 (1993): 166-85.
4. B. Disraeli, Sybil; or, The Two Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1845).
5. W. James, The Moral Equivalent of War and Other Essays, ed. with an introduction by John K. Roth (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), 82-83.
6. B. Pascal quoted in M. H. Witte and C. L. Witte, "Epilogue: Beyond the Sphere of Knowledge in Lymphology," in Cutaneous Lymphatic System, ed. R. Ryan and P. S. Mortimer, special issue, Clinics in Dermatology 13 (1995): 511.
7. Kerwin, "None Too Solid."
8. R. Shattuck, Forbidden Knowledge (New York: St. Martin's, 1996).
9. R. Root-Bernstein, "Problem Recognition and Invention: An Idiosyncratic View of Nepistemology" (paper presented at Q3 Workshop 3, Medical Ignorance Collaboratory, 20-21 July 2001).
10. See "Internet Activities," http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/ Internet-Activities-7.19.06.htm.
11. See Danny Sullivan, "Searches per Day," 20 April 2006, http://searchenginewatch. com/showPage.html?page=2156461.
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15. N. Postman, MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, PBS, 25 July 1995.
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17. M. H. Witte, "Medical Ignorance, Failure, and Chaos: Bright Prospects for the Future," Pharos 54 (1991): 10-13.
18. J. Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (New York: Viking Penguin, 1987).
19. T. Peters, Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1987).
20. R. S. Wurman, Information Anxiety 2 (New York: Doubleday, 2001), 273.
21. R. Johnson, "To Pass This Course, the Students Have to Try Their Hardest to Fail," Wall Street Journal, 16 January 1989, B1;
22. D. Blum, "Risk-Taking Encouraged: In 'Failure 101,' U. of Houston Engineering Professor Offers an Innovative and Creative Approach to Design," Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 April 1990, A15.
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24. L. Smith quoted in Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 June 1990, B1.
25. M. M. Ravitch, Second Thoughts of a Surgical Curmudgeon (Chicago: Yearbook Medical, 1987), 126.
26. M. H. Witte, A. Kerwin, and C. L. Witte, "Seminars, Clinics, and Laboratories on Medical Ignorance," Journal of Medical Education 63, no. 10 (1988): 793-95;
27. M. H. Witte, A. Kerwin, and C. L. Witte, "Curriculum on Medical Ignorance," Medical Education 23 (1989): 24-29;
28. M. H. Witte, C. L. Witte, and D. L. Way, "Medical Ignorance, AIDS-Kaposi Sarcoma Complex, and the Lymphatic System," Western Journal of Medicine 153 (1990): 17-23 (featured in the accompanying editorial
29. R. H. Moser, "Ignorance: Inevitable but Invigorating," Western Journal of Medicine 153 [1990]: 77,
30. C. L. Witte, A. Kerwin, and M. H. Witte, "On the Importance of Ignorance in Medical Practice and Education," Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 16 (1991): 295-98;
31. C. L. Witte, M. H. Witte, and A. Kerwin, "Ignorance and the Process of Learning and Discovery in Medicine," Controlled Clinical Trials 15 (1994): 1-4.
32. M. H. Witte, A. Kerwin, C. L. Witte, J. B. Tyler, A. Witte, and W. Powel, The Curriculum on Medical Ignorance: Coursebook and Resource Manuals for Instructors and Students (1989; rev. ed., Tucson: University of Arizona College of Medicine, May 1996).
33. Witte, Witte, and Kerwin, "Ignorance and the Process of Learning and Discovery in Medicine."
34. M. H. Witte, leader, "Spirit of Inquiry: Some Perspectives on Ignorance" (undergraduate honors seminar, University of Arizona, 29 August 1996).
35. S. H. Stocking, "Ignorance-Based Instruction in Higher Education," Journalism Educator, Autumn 1992, 43-53.
36. M. H. Witte, ed., "AIDS, Kaposi's Sarcoma, and the Lymphatic System: The Known and the Unknown," special issue of Lymphology 21 (1988): 1-87;
37. M. H. Witte and T. Shirai, eds., "AIDS, Other Immunodeficiency Disorders, and the Lymphatic System: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Immunotherapy," special issue of Lymphology 23 (1990): 53-108.
38. "AIDS: The Unanswered Questions," special section of Science 260, no. 5112 (28 May 1993): 1253-1396.
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40. "HIV/AIDS: Latin America and Caribbean," special section of Science 313, no. 5786 (28 July 2006): 405-541.
41. Most of these are summarized on www.medicalignorance.org.
42. Available at http://inspiration.com.
43. Witte, Kerwin, and Witte, "Seminars, Clinics, and Laboratories on Medical Ignorance."
44. R. P. Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? (New York: Norton, 1988), 245.
45. R. Gomory, "The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable," Scientific American 272 (June 1995): 120.