==================== HES POSTING ================== [Not economics, but rather a propos to the current discussion on censorship, and to the more longstanding concern about the place of history of economics in the economics discipline. The following post comes from a different discussion list --Mary Schweitzer <[log in to unmask]>] "Dr.Volker Hess" <[log in to unmask]> writes: This is a cry for help from German History of Medicine! As you probably know medical education in Germany is strictly scheduled by government regulations - the so called "Approbationsordnung fuer Aerzte" (licency regulations for physicians) issued by the Ministry of Health. The medical faculties of all German universities are committed to plan their curriculum according to this Approbationsordnung. The nation wide regulations were last reformed in 1971, and since then plans for a new Approbationsordnung have been under discussion. Last month the Ministry of Health has issued a draft of the new schedule, and so we learned that medical history is no longer mentioned as a subject of medical education at all. This has come as a surprise because all former reform plans included medical history along with ethics and theory of medicine as an essential complement to the scientific and medical part of medical education. Moreover the elimination of Medical History had never been put up for discussion in the Medical Faculties and Societies. Since just now funds for universities have been heavily reduced, there is no money to spend for equipment and staff that are not essential for keeping up the educational frame set up by the Approbationsordnung. So the discussion to cross out Medical History from the central schedule will result in closing down the units for Medical History now existent at most of the German universities. [rest of the post snipped] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]