Virtue in Medicine Reconsidered: Individual Health and Global Health

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 56 (1):126-147 (2013)
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Abstract

At this crucial time, on the centenary of major reforms, we invite all concerned stakeholders to join us in much needed rethinking for reforms of professional education in the 21st century. . . . All health professionals in all countries should be educated to mobilise knowledge and to engage in critical reasoning and ethical conduct so that they are competent to participate in patient and population-centred health systems as members of locally responsive and globally connected teams. What this Commission argues for is nothing less than a remoralisation of health professionals’ education. For decades, health professionals have colluded with centres of power (governmental, commercial, institutional, even ..

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