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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> Medical Humanities Institute<br />

Established<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2008--10—20<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=224559430<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Oct. 20, 2008: The Medical Humanities Institute <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peking</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> Health Science Center (PUHSC) was founded on October 17. There will<br />

be a forum <strong>of</strong> the development <strong>of</strong> medical humanities and social science in China‘s<br />

colleges in the following week, and the first conference <strong>of</strong> the medical school<br />

humanistic social science courses guidance committee will be held at the same time.<br />

Han Qide, Vive-Chairperson <strong>of</strong> the Standing Committee <strong>of</strong> the National People's<br />

Congress <strong>of</strong> China, Zhang Donggang, the Vice-Director <strong>of</strong> Social Science<br />

department <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong> Education, Pr<strong>of</strong>. Ke Yang, Executive Vice President <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> and Pr<strong>of</strong>. Zhang Daqing, Director <strong>of</strong> the Medicine History Center <strong>of</strong> PUHSC<br />

attended the ceremony and gave excellent speeches.<br />

Han Qide expressed that the rapid development <strong>of</strong> the modern medical technology<br />

had brought benefits to human beings, but in the mean time it was also becoming<br />

more uncontrollable because <strong>of</strong> the deviation <strong>of</strong> humanities social science and<br />

medicine. He emphasized the importance <strong>of</strong> humanities in the development <strong>of</strong> the<br />

medicine and hoped that this new-founded institute could make full use <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong> and<br />

national resources to bring humanities to PUHSC.<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>. Zhang Daqing also said that the future doctors should not rely on the high<br />

technology only and forget to search the medical origin and humanness. The clinic<br />

medicine has turned into the laboratory medicine, and the doctors have paid more<br />

attention to the diseases but not the patients themselves. It has become a serious<br />

problem all around the world. On the foundation <strong>of</strong> the Medical School <strong>of</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

Pennsylvania in 1967, the Department <strong>of</strong> Medical Humanities was founded at<br />

simultaneously. And in China, many scholars have made contributions in this field.<br />

He also stressed that we needed more humanity and sensitivity in medicine in this<br />

technological society, and he hoped that the doctors would become more sensitive,<br />

ethical and humanistic through this medical humanities education.<br />

Edited By : Yan Jiefei<br />

Translated By : Su Juan<br />

Source : <strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong> (Chinese)<br />

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