Bhaskar Roy Verso, 2008, PB, 286pp, £15.39, 978-1844672042
Roy Bhaskar was a prominent philosopher of science from 1975, holding, among other posts, World Scholar at the University of London. After 30 years of medical practice, this book helped to explain much of what medical school science failed to, in particular how patients might be understood as an inseparable symphony of mind and matter.
Bhaskar shows that we cannot explain the universe solely in terms of molecules and physical laws, and launches …