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Self-Referent Constructs and Medical Sociology: In Search of an Integrative Framework

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: A theoretical framework centering on four classes of self-referent constructs is offered as a device for integrating the diverse areas constituting medical sociology. Guidance by this framework sensitizes the researcher to the occurrence of parallel processes in adjacent disciplines, facilitates recognition of the etiological significance of findings from other disciplines for explaining medical sociological phenomena, and encourages transactions between sociology and medical sociology whereby each informs and is informed by the other.

Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior

DOI: 10.1177/002214650704800201

Author: Howard B. Kaplan

Institution: Texas A&M University

Language: English

Topic: Health, Medicine and Society

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse

Awards: Drug Abuse and Other Deviant Adaptations to Stress, DRUG USE &OTHER DEVIANCE--A 2ND GENERATION PANEL STUDY, Drug Abuse and Other Deviant Adaptations: Two Generation