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Coronavirus Infections , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral , Religion and Medicine , Betacoronavirus , COVID-19 , Humans , SARS-CoV-2Subject(s)
Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Health Status , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Religion , COVID-19 , HumansSubject(s)
Coronavirus Infections , Coronavirus , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral , Religion and Medicine , Spirituality , Betacoronavirus , COVID-19 , Humans , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
Unfortunately, the editorial was initially published with Dr. Joseph J. Fins article. This has now been corrected and Dr. Fins paper, Beyond Good and Evil: Doing Ethics in the Clinic appears in this issue.
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This essay is an exploration of the development of moral imagination as an important outcome in the teaching of medial ethics. It is contextualized within the growth of professionalism and pays attention to the formation of character of physicians in their formal training and in the first phase of their careers. Issues around formation as it is understood historically in the vocation of the clergy are also considered. Finally, there is discussion of the place rites of passage as they figure in the lives of those who teach medical ethics.
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Education, Medical/ethics , Ethics, Medical/education , Imagination , Morals , Physicians/ethics , HumansSubject(s)
Clergy/history , Religion/history , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , Male , Religion and PsychologySubject(s)
Books , Neurosurgeons/history , Neurosurgery/history , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , Male , United Kingdom , United StatesABSTRACT
Harvey Cushing, M.D. (1869-1939), is the acknowledged father of the discipline of neurosurgery who inspired others to join him in this new field. He was a prolific researcher in the area of human growth disturbances. And he was among the most literary of doctors having won the Pulitzer Prize for his two-volume biography of his mentor and teacher William Osler, M.D. A driven man, he both inspired and intimidated others. This essay explores Cushing's character and background along with his relationship to Osler. It seeks to understand why and how he may be considered a great figure in spite and because of his demanding and often problematic character. It further seeks to place Cushing in the context of the transition of American society and American medicine in the latter decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth century. Portions of this essay were originally delivered as part of a Grand Rounds presentation for the Department of Neurosurgery at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Center.
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Neurosurgeons/psychology , Personality , Cushing Syndrome , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Male , Research Personnel , United StatesABSTRACT
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is arguably one of the greatest of American Presidents. His encounter with the polio that crippled him at an early age and its transformative impact upon him are here discussed with particular reference to his relationship with his physician, Dr. George Draper. This transformation liberated energy in Roosevelt to lead and to show empathy for others in ways that both challenged the political and social status quo in the U.S.A. as well as helped save the world from the threat of Fascism in World War II. This essay seeks to demonstrate how an investigation of the life and struggles of this famous patient is one avenue for relating the study of the humanities to medical education. An earlier version of this paper was presented as the Heberden Lecture in the History of Medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine in 2012.
