Originally published in 1935, this book presents the content of John A. Ryle's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of medicine and the history of science.
Originally published in 1935, this book presents the content of John A. Ryle's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Regius Professor of Ph...
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 science.'Changing Disciplines' was intended to be a manifesto for a new medical creed that promoted clinical science as a field rather than a...
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 ...