Shifting Paradigms in Public Health: From Holism to Individualism

By Vijay Kumar Yadavendu

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8132229290
• ISBN13: 9788132229292
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"