Shifting Paradigms in Public Health From Holism to Individualism /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Public health.; Health.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Biomedicine general.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.

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, populat...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.