Ronald W. Dworkin

About

A fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Ronald W. Dworkin is a physician and political scientist and the author of Medical Catastrophe: Confessions of an Anesthesiologist. His writing can be found at RonaldWDworkin.com.

Wisdom and Pain

from In Need of Repair, Volume 26, Number 3

While focusing on the categories it generates through analysis, science sometimes overlooks those aspects of individuals that cannot easily be summed up in a word.

Medical Humanities and the Specialist

from Political Mythologies, Volume 24, Number 1

Studying art taught me to think differently about medical procedures.

Too Many Doctors in the House

from Distinctions That Define and Divide, Volume 23, Number 2

The title of "doctor" is a very useful thing, provided you can make other people believe it is important.

The Algorithm and the Hippocratic Oath

Doctors need a medical humanities that does more than just help them see health and disease through a patient’s eyes.

Paging Dr. Bot

Reconstituting the totality of a person knowing only the “parts” of his or her mind is equally nonsensical.