Reach Touch and Teach, published in 1970 by an American school teacher, describes an experiment in education at Richmond Union High, ‘an integrated school of three thousand in an industrial city across the bay from San Francisco’ (Borton, 1970, p.3). In many ways, it is a book of its time, filled with accounts of open learning experiments (complete with photographs), idealised statements of int...

Bioethics is now taught in every Canadian medical school. Canada needs a cadre of teachers who can help clinicians learn bioethics. Our purpose is to encourage clinician teachers to accept this important responsibility and to provide practical advice about teaching bioethics to clinicians as an integral part of good clinical medicine. We use 5 questions to focus the discussion: Why should I tea...