CHAPTER 1: SOME RELEVANT CONCEPTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION -- 1.2 ACQUISITION AND PARTICIPATION -- 1.3 SOCIALISATION AND ENCULTURATION -- 1.4 ON REFLECTION -- 1.5 METACOGNITION -- 1.6 LEARNING TO TALK, LEARNING TO THINK: THE DIALOGICAL NATURE OF SOCIO-CULTURAL LOCATED ARGUMENTATION -- 1.7 CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 2: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICAL EDUCATION -- 2. INTRODUCTION -- 2.1 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF PIERRE BOURDIEU -- 2.2 CRITICAL SOCIOLOGIES OF MEDICAL EDUCATION -- 2.3 THE COGNITIVE (MEDICAL) HABITUS NEEDS (ETHICAL) THINKING DISPOSITIONS -- 2.4 CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 3: MEDICAL ETHICS AS AN ASPECT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION: A UK PERSPECTIVE -- 3: INTRODUCTION: THE RISE OF MODERN MEDICAL ETHICS IN THE UK -- 3.1: 1993S TOMORROW'S DOCTORS IN CONTEXT -- 3.2 UK MEDICAL ETHICS EDUCATION PRE-TOMORROW'S DOCTORS -- 3.3 UK MEDICAL ETHICS EDUCATION POST- TOMORROW'S DOCTORS -- 3.4 CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 4: PROF W.G. IRWIN: A CASE STUDY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL ETHICS EDUCATION IN THE UK -- 4: INTRODUCTION -- 4.1 PROF W.G. IRWIN'S DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC GENERAL PRACTICE. - 4.2 TEACHING TERMINAL CARE: A FIRST FORAY INTO THE ETHICS OF MEDICINE -- 4.3 PROF WG IRWIN AND THE WARNOCK COMMITTEE -- 4.3 THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL ETHICS EDUCATION BY PROF W.G. IRWIN AND COLLEAGUES. - 4.5 CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 5: MEDICAL ETHICS EDUCATION FROM A SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE -- 5: INTRODUCTION. - 5.1 THINKING AS PRACTICE: A SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON MEDICAL ETHICS EDUCATION.