This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of:
* pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times * the Enlightenment and its effects * centralization in Victorian Britain * localization of health care in the United States * population issues and family welfare * the rise of the classic welfare state * attitudes...
This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of p...
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 ...