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Shifting Paradigms in Public Health (Record no. 48140)

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International Standard Book Number 9788132216445
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-81-322-1644-5
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Classification number 613
Edition number 23
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Edition number 23
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Personal name Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar.
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Title Shifting Paradigms in Public Health
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title From Holism to Individualism /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by Vijay Kumar Yadavendu.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New Delhi :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Springer India :
-- Imprint: Springer,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2013.
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Extent XVII, 203 p.
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Formatted contents note 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.
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Summary, etc. This transdisciplinary volume outlines the development of public health paradigms across the ages in a global context and argues that public health has seemingly lost its raison d’être, that is, a population perspective. The older, philosophical approach in public health involved a holistic, population-based understanding that emphasized historicity and interrelatedness to study health and disease in their larger socio-economic and political moorings. A newer tradition, which developed in the late 19th century following the acceptance of the germ theory in medicine, created positivist transitions in epidemiology. In the form of risk factors, a reductionist model of health and disease became pervasive in clinical and molecular epidemiology. The author shows how positivism and the concept of individualism removed from public health thinking the consideration of historical, social and economic influences that shape disease occurrence and the interventions chosen for a population. He states that the neglect of the multifactorial approach in contemporary public health thought has led to growing health inequalities in both the developed and the developing world. He further suggests that the concept of ‘social capital’ in public health, which is being hailed as a resurgence of holism, is in reality a sophisticated and extended version of individualism. The author presents the negative public policy consequences and implications of adopting methodological individualism through a discussion on AIDS policies. The book strongly argues for a holistic understanding and the incorporation of a rights perspective in public health to bring elements of social justice and fairness in policy formulations.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medicine.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medicine
General subdivision Philosophy.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Public health.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medicine & Public Health.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Public Health.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biomedicine general.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy of Medicine.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Popular Science in Medicine and Health.
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Title Springer eBooks
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International Standard Book Number 9788132216438
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1644-5">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1644-5</a>
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