01070pab a2200157 454500 180718b2001 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar Social construction of health: changing paradigms 2001 p.2784-795 21 Jul The 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 Health services Economic and Political Weekly 49173 49173 49173 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 36, Issue no: 29 AR49601 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR