Public health as a social science: reflections on the possibility of a comprehensive public health

AbstractClose historic relationships between medicine and public health have implied, as a consequence for the latter, the inheritance of epistemological traits traditionally characteristic of a positivistic conception of science on which a major part of the theoretical development of modern medicin...

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Main Author: Diego A. Restrepo
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Antioquia 2011-05-01
Series:Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública
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Online Access:http://aprendeenlinea.udea.edu.co/revistas/index.php/fnsp/article/view/7671/8072