01019pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002700040245005400067260000900121300001500130362001100145520067500156650002000831773003400851180718b2001   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aYadavendu, Vijay Kumar  aSocial construction of health: changing paradigms  c2001  ap.2784-795  a21 Jul  aThe science of health has been characterised by positivism and extreme rationalism, divested from its social and economic context.  The use of social sciences is still confined in the prison of reductionism for with the increased interaction of the disciplines of medical sociology and psychology with health, there is a greater adherence to the quantitative method, nowhere more evident than the interaction of behaviourism to health.  This, in turn, obfuscates both the causes of disease and ill health in a society and therefore, the quest for solutions.  This study tries in its different sections to expose the handiwork of such deterministic sciences. - Reproduced  aHealth services  aEconomic and Political Weekly