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100			_aYadavendu, Vijay Kumar
245			_aSocial construction of health: changing paradigms
260			_c2001
300			_ap.2784-795
362			_a21 Jul
520			_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
650			_aHealth services
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a49173
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