Literature and the Teaching of Medical Ethics in Nigeria: A Creative Writer's Perspective

摘要

This paper, written from a first person narrative approach, postulates that one of the effective methods of teaching the ethics of medicine in Nigeria, is through the three genres of literature, namely, prose, poetry and drama. Using his personal experiences as a creative writer, budding bioethicist and medical humanities scholar as well as poems written by the late Professor Latunde Odeku as reference points, the author also posits that literature and other disciplines in the humanities can function as veritable tools in reinventing and reinvigorating the ethics curriculum in Nigerian medical schools as it is presently being done in medical schools in the more developed countries of the world.