Shifting Paradigms in Public Health From Holism to Individualism /

This transdisciplinary volume outlines the development of public health paradigms across the ages in a global context and argues that public health has seemingly lost its raison d'être, that is, a population perspective. The older, philosophical approach in public health involved a holistic, p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Temas:
Public health.
Medicine-Research.
Biology-Research.
Medicine-Philosophy.
Medical sciences.
Public Health.
Biomedical Research.
Philosophy of Medicine.
Health Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Public Health in Dilemma of Facticity
  • PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORIOGRAPHY OF PUBLIC HEALTH
  • Chapter 2. Origins and Orientations of Medicine and Health: A Socio-historical Overview
  • Chapter 3. Philosophical Historiography of Epidemiology
  • Chapter 4. Epidemiology, Sociology and Psychology of Health and Disease
  • PART II: METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
  • Chapter 5. Ideas and Ideologies of Methodological Individualism in Sociology of Knowledge and Neoliberal Economics
  • Chapter 6. Individuation of Psychology
  • PART III: STRUCTURE POWER AND THEORY OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES
  • Chapter 7. Polemics and Politics of Health Inequalities: A Critique
  • Chapter 8. Metaphor of HIV/AIDS Policy: Images and Contexts
  • Chapter 9. Epilogue: The Past and Future of Public Health.

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