Social Pathology as a Medical Science

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...

Medical ethics and medical practice: a social science view.

This paper argues that two characteristics of social life impinge importantly upon medical attempts to maintain high ethical standards. The first is the tension between the role of ethics in protecting the patient and maintaining the solidarity of the profession. The second derives from the observation that the foundations of contemporary medical ethics were laid at a time of one-to-one doctor-...

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 ...

The Social Implications of Medical Science

In 1924 under the auspices of the Heretics, a society at Cam-bridge, were published two small booklets. One, Daedalus or Science and the Future, by J. B. S. Haldane, pictured, perhaps too optimistically, and certainly too vividly, the vast beneficent potentialities of science and the blessed world it might create. The other, Icarus, or the Future of Science, by Bertrand Russell, pointed out the...