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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 Ryleâs 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 laboratory study, brought social science into the explanation of disease, and returned the âwhole patientâ to the center of medical practice. In 1942, the author resigned his chair at Cambridge to become the new director of a new Institute of Social Medicine established at the University of Oxford. In doing so he sacrificed on of the most senior academic positions in British medicine to embark on an educational adventure.  His goal was to re-create medicine as a humanistic science, governed by what he called âsocial conscience as well as scientific intent.â
Ryleâs critique of clinical medicine and its relationship to the biomedical sciences led to the creation of a new science, which he called âsocial pathologyâ and was institutionalized into a new academic discipline called âsocial medicine.â Social pathology, or social medicine, shifts the boundaries of etiology out of the laboratory of the microscope into the laboratory of the community; out of the hands of the biochemist into the hands of the social scientist. Social medicine is concerned with manâs relation to his environment. In contrast to public health of that era, social medicine focused more on chronic rather than infectious diseases and investigated the preventability of both.
In a new introduction, Dorothy Porter discusses Ryleâs academic and professional lives and how he came to develop the idea of social medicine. She shows how Ryleâs studies and efforts have influenced the transformation of modern medicine and public health. Changing Disciplines is a valuable resource for historians, sociologists, and practioners and researchers of medicine.
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