Epistemology, culture, justice and power: non-bioscientific knowledge for medical training

Medical Education

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 158-173

  Kuper, Ayelet ^a,b,c   Veinot, Paula ^c   Leavitt, Jennifer ^d   Levitt, Sarah ^a   Li, Amanda ^c   Goguen, Jeannette ^c,e   Schreiber, Martin ^c,e   Richardson, Lisa ^a,c,f   Whitehead, Cynthia R ^a,c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^g WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; CULTURE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANITIES; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 85005951187     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/medu.13115     Document Type: Article

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