136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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How do social scientists create facts? What strategies do they use to construct knowledge? How does social science make sense of the individual? Critical studies of both medical and scientific knowledge have been conducted but social science knowledge remains relatively unquestioned.
Addressing this question, Health and the Construction of the Individual , originally published in 2002, is a... Read more
List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Towards a Social Study of Social Science 2. Theory as Data: The Example of Health and Risk 3. Methodology as Data: The Example of Sex Research 4. Measurement as Data: The Example of Health Status 5. The Rhetorical Challenge to Biomedicine 6. Defining the Individual/Social Boundary 7. Who is the Late Twentieth-Century Individual? The Example of Diet 8. Health and the Construction of the Individual: Concluding Remarks. References. Index.
Biography
Jane Ogden
