Roy Bhaskar, Berth Danermark, Leigh Price

Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351709965
• Artikelnr.: 48803156

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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