RT Journal
T1 Changing disciplines: Lectures on the history, method and motives of social pathology
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD July 23
VO 140
IS 12
SP 1064
OP 1064
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900470068032
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900470068032
AB The author is the head of the Institute of Social Medicine at the University of Oxford. The lectures here included were developed for the New York Academy of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Medical School. As a pioneer in the organization of education in the field concerned, all that Professor Ryle has to say is of interest to the physician. Among the most interesting of the essays is that dealing with medical ethics and the new humanism, since it provides opinions and information on problems that are today rather controversial. One finds Dr. Ryle saying that the decline in infant mortality can be attributed in large part to general social betterment and the falling birth rate, whereas Sir Stafford Cripps recently gave most of the credit in Great Britain to nationalization of medicine.