Changing Disciplines: Lectures on the History, Method, and Motives of Social Pathology

by Dorothy Porter and John Alfred Ryle

John A. Ryle has been described as a late Victorian intellectual, because he viewed medicine as an art as well as a science. In reality, his writings were intended to reform medical education. He aimed to capture the medical curriculum and restructure the methodological and epistemological basis of medicine. 'Changing Disciplines' is a compilation of some of Ryle's most thought-provoking lectures about the need to recreate medicine as a humanistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138520217
• ISBN13: 9781138520219
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages