Studying health and disease
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Studying health and disease
（Health and disease series, bk. 2）
Published by the Open University Press in association with the Open University, 1994
- : pbk
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"This text forms part of an Open University second level course"--T.p. verso
"Completely revised edition"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-136) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What makes us ill? How do we know what makes us ill? Biologists, doctors, statisticians, sociologists and historians all study health and disease. This book describes the basic methods of investigation used by all these professional, and shows how they are related and how they differ. The book works through examples such as diabetes and spina bifida to demonstrate how the causation of disease can be studied at many different levels - from microscopic processes within body cells to large-scale matters like the relationships between different groups of people in society. The aim is to provide readers with a critical understanding of the ways in which our knowledge of health and disease was arrived at, and to show how knowledge from various disciplines can fit together to provide a full picture of health and disease in our world.
Table of Contents
- The nature of scientific research
- qualitative methods in sociology and anthropology
- historical research methods
- qualitative methods in social sciences
- analyzing numerical data
- some basic ideas of demography and epidemiology
- investigating causes and evaluating treatments
- biomedical research methods
- the web of explanations. Appendix: Table of abbreviations.
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