Medicine as a Social Science

Social Science in Medicine

In these times, when our social and political inadequacies in dealing with the advances wrought by nuclear fission are so apparent, it is encouraging to find that forward-looking men in medicine and the social sciences are working together to bridge that gap between their respective fields of interest. Although the authors point out that the practice of medicine at large or in the hospital in p...

Social Science in Medicine

Medicine. By Leo W. Simmons fe? Harold G. Wolff. New York, 1954. Russell Sage Foundation. $3.50. 254 pp. Medical and public interest has formerly been focussed more on bacteriological and pharmacological advances and the result has been inevitably some neglect of the patient as a person; the pendulum is now swinging back and it is somewhat ironic that it has been necessary to invent a new term?...

Archaeology as a social science.

Because of advances in methods and theory, archaeology now addresses issues central to debates in the social sciences in a far more sophisticated manner than ever before. Coupled with methodological innovations, multiscalar archaeological studies around the world have produced a wealth of new data that provide a unique perspective on long-term changes in human societies, as they document variat...

Demography as social science and policy science

Demography as a Spatial Social Science

Many social scientists have taken note of the re-emerging interest in issues concerning social processes embedded within a spatial context. While some argue that this awakening is refreshing and new and, in fact, long overdue, I demonstrate that spatially focused demographic theories and research agendas clearly predate contemporary interest in these topics. I assert that recent methodological ...