Society and Health: Sociology for Health Professionals - Thomas, R.K.
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Section: Teaching Health Sociology
Most serious efforts aimed at linking social and behavioral sciences knowledge to medical practice have included "models" which integrate social and behavioral science concepts. We argue that such an integration is intellectually problematic due to an important analytic distinction between "social" sciences and "psychological" sciences. If the social explanation of illness is to become useful i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sociology of Health and Illness
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0141-9889,1467-9566
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00503_3.x