EPIDEMIOLOGY AS A "DISCIPLINE."

Psychiatric epidemiology, or the story of a divided discipline.

This article traces the historical decisions, concepts and key professional collaborations that laid the foundations for the formation of American psychiatric epidemiology during the 20th century, up to the discipline's institutional consolidation, circa 1980, when the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) was published. Thomas Kuhn's 'disciplinary...

Defining family medicine as a scientific discipline.

Statistics as a Mathematical Discipline By

Asian neurology as a discipline of study

Asian neurology should be viewed as a discipline of study. This is because ethnic, geographical, environmental, social and cultural factors influence neurological disease causation, manifestation, outcome, treatment, and clinical practice. Ethnic factor affecting disease pathology is reflected in severe spinal cord involvement as a universal feature of Asians with multiple sclerosis, and intrac...

Nature of Geography as a Discipline

The proposed course aims at explaining the nature of the subject. It throws light on the importance of geography and describes the nature of geography as a subject. It attempts to enrich knowledge and illustrate basic concepts as well as technical terms which are building blocks of geographic knowledge. Effort, however, has been made to develop the concepts in a graded and sequencial manner and...