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This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to health. It considering what the authors call the 'seven enigmas' facing the health practitioner, namely the enigmas of diagnosis; symptomology; causation; healing; prevention; intervention/treatment/therapy and finally rehabilitation.

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Author:   Roy Bhaskar ,  Berth Danermark (Orebro University, Sweden) ,  Leigh Price (Rhodes University, South Africa)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780415496667

ISBN 10:   0415496667
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   21 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part I: Antinomies of Mainstream Interdisciplinarity 2. Overview of the Contemporary Literature 3. Contemporary Ways to Justify Interdisciplinarity Part II: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity 4. Core Concepts of Critical Realism 5. Critical Realism and Social Science 6. The Ontological Case for Interdisciplinarity 7. The Seven Steps to a Deeper Understanding of Ontology 8. Critical Realism and the Alternative Metatheories/Methodologies Part III: Applied Interdisciplinary Research 9. Biophysical Interventions Are Not Enough: the Hidden (Holistic) Healing Ensemble 10. The Seven Enigmas of Healing 11. The Biopsychosocial Approach, with Special Reference to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health 12. The Practical Organization of Interdisciplinary Co-operation 13. Understanding Methodological Imperialism 14. Interdisciplinarity in Action: Explaining the Epidemiology of HIV 15. Concluding Considerations

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This book is the definitive critical realist account, in accessible prose, of what science must do to maximize its understanding of the world, and in particular human wellbeing and flourishing. Mervyn Hartwig, editor and principal author of Dictionary of Critical Realism

This book is the definitive critical realist account, in accessible prose, of what science must do to maximize its understanding of the world, and in particular human wellbeing and flourishing. Mervyn Hartwig, editor and principal author of Dictionary of Critical Realism

This book is the definitive critical realist account, in accessible prose, of what science must do to maximize its understanding of the world, and in particular human wellbeing and flourishing. Mervyn Hartwig, editor and principal author of Dictionary of Critical Realism

Author Information

Roy Bhaskar was the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and influential works including A Realist Theory of Science (1975); The Possibility of Naturalism (1979); Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation (1986); Reclaiming Reality (1989); Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom (1991); Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom (1993); Reflections on Meta-Reality (2002); and From Science to Emancipation (2011). Berth Danermark is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the School of Health Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden. He is also the Director of Doctoral Studies (and founder member) of the Swedish Institute of Disability Research. Leigh Price is Senior Research Associate at the Environmental Learning and Research Centre, Rhodes University, South Africa, and Editor of the Journal of Critical Realism.

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