醫學院通識教育的另一種可能性：醫學史課程

History and Philosophy of Medicine in the General Education in Medical Colleges

陳恒安(Heng-An Chen)

《台灣醫學人文學刊》 8卷1&2期 (2007/07) Pp. 77-97

https://doi.org/10.30097/FJMH.200707.0008

摘要

本文目的在於探討醫學史在醫學通識教育可能扮演的角色與提供的素材。醫學史強調醫療知識的動態發展歷程，分析各時期醫學典範所以形成的物質、理論、技術、社會與文化條件。藉由呈現過去與現代醫學觀念或實踐差異，可促發醫學院學生反思當代醫學體系視為理所當然的知識理論、健康觀念、疾病觀念與日常醫療實踐。歷史分析並不是要高舉反科學的旗幟，而是希望反映出當代醫學知識與實踐的特色與限制，並期待因此能改變醫療人員與使用醫療資源人員對醫學的刻板印象，使醫療事業更具人文的關懷。最後，本文建議人文社會學科與醫學必須善意的相互接觸，長期對話以發掘出適合醫學院合適的醫學史案例。

關鍵字

醫學史 ； 醫學教育 ； 應用史學

並列摘要

Does medical education need history of medicine? This paper examines the potential of this discipline in medical education. History of medicine is not a ”hagiography”. It deals with the historical, cultural and social context of the development of modern medical thinking and practice. One role of the history of medicine is to identify, analyze and criticize the foundations of our present understanding of medicine that reflected in its ”real” history. Historical studies on medicine are not anti science-and-technology based medicine. They could help us understand more profoundly the very sense of what we exactly do. From the perspective of medical humanities, it is proposed that the future of such studies may combine the cognate disciplines, such as history, philosophy and sociology to form ”medicine studies”.

並列關鍵字

history of medicine ； medical education ； applied history of science