Ethical sense, medical ethics education, and

The toolbox of instructional methods available to medical ethics educators is richly stocked and well-catalogued. However, the history of ideas relating to its contents is relatively under-researched in the medical education literature. This paper proposes an approach to professional medical ethics education that adapts the ancient The 'ethical sense' postulated in this article is a distant echo of The ethics educator can engage the ethical sense of students through maieutic 'teaching and learning by asking' in relation to actual clinical narratives, beginning not with the teacher's questions but importantly with those of the