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Science and Humanity Should be Unified in Contemporary Medical Education

Ma Wenyu

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Lack of advocating humanity is in contemporary medical education now. Many people, including some teachers, have misunderstanding on the relationship between humanities and traditional science.Science disregards human's emotion and spirit world, while advocating objectivity and rationality, and that simple humanity tends to be of parochialism and extremeness. Science and humanity should be unified rationally in contemporary advanced medical education. We believe that it will be very useful to enhance humanities education in medical students. It can help them recognizing the value of science research accurately and dealing with the relationship between human and science properly in future.

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Lack of advocating humanity is in contemporary medical education now. Many people, including some teachers, have misunderstanding on the relationship between humanities and traditional science.Science disregards human's emotion and spirit world, while advocating objectivity and rationality, and that simple humanity tends to be of parochialism and extremeness. Science and humanity should be unified rationally in contemporary advanced medical education. We believe that it will be very useful to enhance humanities education in medical students. It can help them recognizing the value of science research accurately and dealing with the relationship between human and science properly in future.

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Lack of advocating humanity is in contemporary medical education now. Many people, including some teachers, have misunderstanding on the relationship between humanities and traditional science.Science disregards human's emotion and spirit world, while advocating objectivity and rationality, and that simple humanity tends to be of parochialism and extremeness. Science and humanity should be unified rationally in contemporary advanced medical education. We believe that it will be very useful to enhance humanities education in medical students. It can help them recognizing the value of science research accurately and dealing with the relationship between human and science properly in future.

Key concepts: Humanity, Objectivity (philosophy), Parochialism, Rationality, Medical science, Value (mathematics), Human values, Epistemology

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